Taiwanese PC maker Acer reported a net loss in last year's fourth quarter, weighed down by a US$120 million write-off related to its Gateway, eMachines and Packard Bell product brands. Acer said on Tuesday its fourth quarter loss reached ...
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Taiwanese PC maker Acer reported a net loss in last year’s fourth quarter, weighed down by a US$120 million write-off related to its Gateway, eMachines and Packard Bell product brands. Acer said on Tuesday its fourth quarter loss ...
There appears to be no end to the Chromebook phenomenon, which has seen PC maker after PC maker jump onto Google‘s Chrome OS-powered bandwagon. Samsung, Acer, Lenovo, and HP have all joined the fray, and this week Acer expanded its ...
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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 ...
Microsoft has done something it's historically been loath to do: discount prices for the copies of Windows it sells to computer makers, online reports said today. Both the Wall Street Journal and the Asian electronics supply chain ...
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Touch-based Windows 8 notebooks have been selling well for Taiwanese PC maker Asus, but overall Microsoft’s new operating system has yet to find a major following, the company said. “I think the acceptance of Windows 8 in Q4 ...
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Touch-based Windows 8 notebooks have been selling well for Taiwanese PC maker Asus, but overall Microsoft's new operating system has yet to find a major following, the company said. "I think the acceptance of Windows 8 in Q4 is not so ...
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There are still many unknowns about how going private will affect Dell and its customers, but company executives insist that the computer vendor will continue to pursue its latest enterprise strategy no matter what. Earlier this month, ...
Dell has reported another quarter of declining revenue and profit as the company's CEO continues his battle to take the PC maker private. It was the fifth consecutive quarter in which Dell's profits shrank, and the fourth in which it ...
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IDG News Service - The growing number of shareholders voicing opposition to Dell's US$24.4 billion plan to go private appears to be putting the company increasingly on the defensive, raising questions about the terms of the deal. This is ...
Questions are being raised about the terms of Dell’s $24.4 billion buyout deal, as the number of shareholders voicing opposition to the plan appears to be growing. Dell is now increasingly on the defensive. This is not good news ...
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There is a lot yet to be told about how going private will change Dell, but one thing it won't change is its enterprise strategy. With its $24.4 billion buyout, Dell's enterprise strategy "does not change," Jess Blackburn, a spokesman for ...
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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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Free from the bright lights of Wall Street, Dell's decision to go private is likely to lead to the company downplaying if not entirely eliminating consumer products in favor of building out its enterprise product portfolio, analysts said. ...
For those who call tablets personal computers, Apple Inc. is the world's top PC maker, according to research firm Canalys. Canalys reported Wednesday that one in five PCs shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012 was an Apple device, and most ...
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