DELL'S financial advisers tried to persuade 71 potential bidders to make an offer for the troubled personal computer maker before two of them emerged to challenge a proposed $24.4 billion deal with the company's founder, according to ...
As PC sales remain sluggish, analysts expect Taiwanese vendors Acer and Asustek Computer to try to seize today's changing tech market with low-end Android tablets, for which consumer demand is high. Acer hopes to ship up to 10 million ...
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Dell has introduced the versatile XPS 18 PC, an 18-inch all-in-one PC that can double as a supersized tablet. The XPS 18 runs Windows 8, and with a large touchscreen, has the look of a mammoth tablet. At 2.2 kilograms, the machine is not ...
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The grumbling of PC makers is getting louder with Windows 8 doing little to spark laptop sales. The latest complaints come from Jun Dong-Soo, President of Samsung‘s memory chip division, who had no kind words for Windows 8 during a ...
Shares in Hewlett-Packard rose six per cent on Wall Street yesterday following better than expected results for the three months to the end of January. While sales dropped by six per cent and profits declined by 16 per cent from the ...
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Advanced Micro Devices hopes to take on Intel's ultrabooks with a new keyboard docking technology that modifies the level of performance of thin-and-light hybrid devices when used in tablet or laptop modes. The company's Turbo Dock ...
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Nvidia on Tuesday announced the GeForce GTX Titan, a GPU designed to handle the most demanding games by harnessing the processing power of 2,668 graphics cores. The GPU, which the company claims is the world's fastest graphics processor, ...
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Just as Dell announced it had finalized its buyout deal, Hewlett-Packard came out swinging, criticizing its rival and declaring it's going after Dell's customers. On Tuesday, Dell, the third-largest PC maker, said executives had finalized ...
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Microsoft's $2 billion loan to Dell, the world's third-largest seller of personal computers, was a signal that the personal computer, Microsoft's Windows, or both, are at growing risk of irrelevance, analysts said Tuesday. The loan was ...
Dell's buyout deal should give the company renewed business flexibility and stealth, but its customers need to know if Dell will be in the PC market for the long haul. "Now, Dell will be able to better compete with HP, Lenovo, IBM and ...
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A two per cent profit margin is 'success' for a PC manufacturer, according to Lenovo's COO of EMEA, Gianfranco Lanci. Lenovo overtakes Acer’s EMEA PC sales but HP remains top Analysis: PC makers need to shape up or ship out HP ...
HP has come out fighting. Following the announcement that Dell had finalised its buyout deal, the technology giant criticised its rival and claimed that it will go after Dell’s customers. On Tuesday, Dell, the world’s ...
Computerworld - Booming sales of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives (SSDs) are taking a toll on hard-disk drive (HDD) sales, revenue from which is expected to drop by about 12% this year. According to a market report from ...
Acer’s still hoping for Windows 8 sales to take off, but in the meantime, the company has been pleasantly surprised with sales of its Chromebooks. Since November, Chromebooks have accounted for 5 percent to 10 percent of ...
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Dell is said to be close to being bought out for about $24bn (£15.1bn) as the crisis amid PC makers takes its toll on one of the world's largest technology firms. The company, which has switched its focus from producing PCs to ...
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