The Wall Street Journal reported on its web site Saturday that buyout specialist Blackstone Group and activist investor Carl Icahn have both notified a special committee of Dell Inc.

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Riverford, a British organic-vegetables specialist based in Devon, runs a successful web-based home-delivery service.

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For a trip to the U.S. and Europe I'm taking next month, I tried making bookings three separate ways -- through my regular agent in Hong Kong, by consulting a round-the-world specialist in San Francisco I found on the Web, and by myself online.

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As the customer is waiting for a specialist to arrive, he or she might begin playing with the apps on an iPad or visiting a web site on a Mac (the products are all working and connected to the Internet).

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