A friend gave me a laptop to look at. About 90% of the time when you hit the power button the power led will come on and the fans will start up but nothing else happens. No beeps, no BIOS messages, ...

Why do some big mergers succeed while others fail? This seems to be a common question, and some of the research I’ve read about the Dell-EMC merger tries to connect it to the HP-Compaq merger, which ...