No more buys from Acer
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Digesting Gateway and Packard-Bell Acer has pulled itself off the acquisition trail for the foreseeable future and will spend the next couple of years digesting Gateway and Packard Bell.â¦
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Purchasing a permanent license to its pioneering OS is a shrewd move.
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Taiwan&#39;s Acer Inc will buy  Gateway Inc for $710 million to double its U.S. presence and  unseat China&#39;s Lenovo as the world&#39;s No. 3 PC maker, while  dealing a blow to its efforts to grow in Europe.
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New sales of these once-popular products have been banned. Now what?
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Looks like I'll get the drive back soon. First I got a call from the Emeryville store, then I got a call from a person in Apple Executive offices (she gave me her name and number, but I'm not going to publish it here). I'll report back when I have more info. PS: The number of idiotic comments has gone way up.
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The chipmaker withdraws after being asked to end support for all non-OLPC platforms. This doesn't square with Intel's plans to build a cheap laptop of its own.
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We've been using the term "resurgent" in conjunction with Acer so often that you'd begin to think it was a brand name for a new PC model. But in the quarter just ended the surge failed, so to speak, as hardware analysis firm iSuppli reports unit shipments for Acer fell by 10,000 for the first time in several quarters.
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An agreement announced Monday would deliver Gateway Inc. to former rival Acer Inc. for $710 million. The acquisition would make Acer the third-largest PC vendor in the world.
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ACER Computer NZ posted a 32 per cent rise in sales in the year to December, expanding revenue to $81.2 million. Its net profit for the year was slightly down at $2.3 million.
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Avoid these names ... unless you want to destroy your savings.
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Man wins â¬811 damages over â¬599 laptop A French man has won a lawsuit against computer maker Acer over a laptop he bought that came pre-loaded with Microsoft's Windows XP and other applications he didn't want.â¦
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Business & money: Deal forced to be scrapped as the fallout from the sub-prime markets continues to spread
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Fair shares for all Acer's president has called for a fairer division of the spoils in the PC industry this morning, but stopped short of pointing the finger at any profit hoggers.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Acer Inc. executed a master stroke in the global war for PC market share withÂ its US$710 million purchase of Gateway Inc., but it may take a while for the market to see the light. Industry researchers view the deal as a long term positive, saying it not only strengthens Acer's ability to challenge Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. for U.S. market share, but that it alsoÂ blocked a potent rival, Lenovo Group Ltd., from gaining ground in Europe. Even Sun-tzu, the ancient Chinese war strategist who wrote "The Art of War," could not have achieved a better move, wrote J.P. Gownder, consumer PC analyst at Forrester Research, in a report. "Acer strategists calculated several moves ahead in the global PC chess game. If the execution is solid, this deal will create a powerful third-place PC competitor that will challenge HP and Dell by 2009, and portends the rise of non-Japanese Asian PC superpowers," he wrote. But in the near term, stock market analysts and investors couldn't have disagreed more. Almost in unison, they criticized the deal as too expensive, too complex and unnecessary for Acer's growth. "The premium paid to Gateway may be too high, and the execution risk of a multiple-brand strategy is clearly the key here," said Vincent Chen, PC industry analyst at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets in Taipei. The negative comments hurt Acer's stock. The shares fell 10.6 percent this week to end at NT$57.9 (US$1.75) Friday on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. But the view of the financial sector may be short sighted. Analysts at industry researchers such as Forrester, IDC and Current Analysis West take a longer-term perspective on the deal. Acer and Gateway may lose some market share immediately following the merger, which is normal, according to Richard Shim, an analyst at IDC. But over the long term the deal will give it the size and clout to gain market share and source components. "The opportunity for Acer in acquiring Gateway is the consumer market segment and particularly the retail channel," he wrote in a report. "The acquisition of Gateway will not necessarily position Acer to be a competitor on the level of Dell and HP but it lays the ground work for Acer to be a more significant player in the largest market in the world [the U.S.] and in the fastest growing segment of that market." Current Analysis West analyst Toni Duboise believes Acer could triple its U.S. market share with the addition of Gateway-branded desktops and notebooks, and eMachines' value PCs. The impact of the deal will take months, even years to ripple through the market, analysts say. Not only did Acer add significantly to its size,Â it also stopped Lenovo from increasing its presence in Europe. Lenovo had been in talks to buy Packard Bell BV, but by picking up Gateway, Acer was able to block the deal. Gateway held the right to refuse any deal to buy Packard Bell and make its own offer due to an older contract between the two companies. Stock market analysts argue that buying Packard Bell is a waste of time for Acer because the company is already strong in Europe. But industry researchers, and Forrester in particular, argue the move staved off a Lenovo ploy that might have hurt Acer in Europe. To be sure, merging companies isn't easy. Acer's ability to join company cultures, keep valuable workers and create product strategies that make sense will be the key to the success of the deal. The company has many recent examples to learn from, most notably HP's purchase of Compaq and the sale of IBM Corp.'s PC division to Lenovo. Rob Enderle, industry analyst at the Enderle Group, warns that Acer needs to make sure it keeps people from Gateway with experience in acquisitions, such as those who worked to make eMachines a part of Gateway after that deal. "This is also an ideal time to take a look at all of the technology both companies are using, both HP and Lenovo waited until late to get rid of a lot of the out-of-date operational technology the companies were using and that hurt both a lot. Particularly in the case of HP and the PC Company side of Lenovo, updating the core operations technology was critical to the success both firms are experiencing now," Enderle said. Time will tell if Acer can execute its merger strategy as well as its battle plan for the global PC market. Â
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(InfoWorld) - Acer's planned $710 million acquisitionÂ of U.S. PC vendor GatewayÂ won antitrust approval in the U.S. as the clock struck midnight Monday, Gateway said. The time marked the end of a 30-day waiting period in which the U.S. Federal Trade Commission or the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice may intervene or request additional time to review the deal for possible antitrust violations. Not all transactions face antitrust scrutiny by the two U.S. agencies. Acer, of Hsichih, Taiwan, was forced to file with the agencies to notify them of its intention to buy Gateway and provide details of the proposed transaction due to the size of the deal. At the end of the day on Monday, the waiting period ended, Gateway said in a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. "The closing of the transaction remains subject to other customary conditions, including regulatory approvals in other jurisdictions which [Acer] anticipates will be satisfied over the next several weeks," Gateway said. Acer agreed to buy GatewayÂ in August. Once the acquisition closes, Acer will become the world's third largest PC vendor by shipments, at around 20 million desktops and laptops a year, and it will be transformed into a company with different PC brands. The boards of directors at both companies have already signed off on the agreement. Â
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Just a few months after Acer's purchase of the American PC maker, the two companies are functioning as one.
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Acer, the world&#39;s third largest PC vendor, is taking aim at Japan this year as a key place to grow its booming business, the company chairman said.The Taiwanese company plans to extend its business model of working closely with, and sharing profits with, distributors, to Japan, where companies such as Sony and Toshiba dominate the market, Acer Chairman J.T. Wang told local media in Taipei. An Acer representative confirmed the statements.Acer also plans to release new products in the second or third quarter of this year aimed at ultra-mobility and the low-cost segment of the PC market, Wang said.The Acer representative declined to provide further details on what kind of devices the company may launch, but local media in Taiwan speculate that Acer is planning an ultra-low cost laptop PC to compete against&#160;Asustek Computer&#39;s Eee PC laptop.Asustek created the Eee PC to sell in emerging markets such as China and India. It carries an Intel Celeron processor, weighs less than a kilogram, has a 7-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) and can connect to the Internet wirelessly. The lowest-priced version costs NT$7,999 (US$248).The Eee PC has garnered so much attention for Asustek, which forecast it will sell 3.8 million of the devices this year, that many of its fellow Taiwanese&#160;competitors are developing rival devices. Taiwan&#39;s Micro-Star International&#160;(MSI) has said it&#39;s working on an ultra-low cost notebook&#160;that will use an extremely low voltage, low-cost microprocessor from Intel called Diamondville. Intel has said it will formally unveil the new chip at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai this April.Acer also believes its&#160;first quarter sales will be far better than last year, despite global economic worries. Wang told local media that Acer&#39;s sales will rise 15 percent to 20 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, which ends March 31.&#160;