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Dell has refreshed one of its popular Windows tablets to stuff more processing power in it and upgrade the software. The company on Monday announced the launch of its latest Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 tablet, the Dell Venue 8 Pro 5855. The improvements compared to the old Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet include a full-HD display, cellular connectivity support, and Windows 10  operating system out-of-the-box. The company is currently selling its latest  Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 Series tablet from its official website, where the starting price is listed as $449 (roughly Rs. 30,300). The original  Dell Venue 8 Pro  was launched back in 2014, and has since seen several iterations. The Dell Venue 8 Pro 5000 (2016) sports an 8-inch full-HD (1920x1080 pixels) display - a nice improvement over the HD (1280x800 pixels) display its predecessor shipped with. The new Dell Venue 8 Pro is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom x5-Z8500 SoC clocked at 1.44GHz (up to 2.24GHz), coupled with 4GB of R...

EMC Corp said it would pay Dell Inc up to $2.5 billion in termination fees if the data-storage company accepts a "superior proposal". The company will have to pay about $2 billion (roughly Rs. 13,026 crores) before the expiry of the 60-day 'go-shop' period, during which EMC can solicit other bids, and $2.5 billion after the expiry on December 12. EMC said Dell had secured financing of up to $49.5 billion (roughly Rs. 3,22,404 crores) from banks to fund the roughly $67 billion deal announced on Monday. While IBM Corp, Cisco Systems Inc, Oracle Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co could be potential suitors for EMC, the chances of them challenging Dell with a rival offer are slim, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. Dell's offer is structured in a way that will also give EMC shareholders a special stock that tracks the share price in cloud-based virtualization software maker VMware Inc, which is majority-owned by EMC. Upon closure of the deal, EMC sh...