Taiwan's Acer to Acquire Gateway

August 27, 2007 By ANNIE HUANG, Associated Press Writer Taiwan's Acer to Acquire Gateway (AP)

A Gateway computer is on display for retail sale at a Best Buy store in Los Angeles in this Aug. 23, 2006 file photo. Acer Inc. plans to acquire U.S. computer maker Gateway Inc. for $710 million in a deal that will push the Taiwanese company past China's Lenovo Group as the world's third largest vendor of personal computers. Acer said Monday, Aug. 27, 2007 it is offering to buy Gateway for $1.90 per share in a deal expected to close by December, pending regulatory approvals in Taiwan and the U.S. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

(AP) -- Acer Inc. plans to acquire U.S. computer maker Gateway Inc. for $710 million in a deal that will push the Taiwanese company past China's Lenovo Group as the world's third largest vendor of personal computers.

Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:

Lenovo reports losses as sales plummet (Update)

May 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in China

Jul 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Lenovo Eliminating 1,400 Jobs

Apr 20, 2007 | not rated yet | 0

Microsoft to Sell over $1 Billion in Software to Lenovo

May 11, 2007 | 3 / 5 (3) | 0

PC shipments slide in 1Q, HP tops Dell in US (Update)

Apr 15, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Rate this story - 3.7 /5 (6 votes)

rank
1
2
3
4
5

view popular

Other News

Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

Technology / Internet

7 hours ago | 4.3 / 5 (12) | 5

(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...

Pulling the plug on hybrid myths

Technology / Energy

Nov 19, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (12) | 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you call them myths, urban legends, fables or old wives' tales, there's a lot of misinformation out there about plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. These vehicles, abbreviated PHEVs, ...

UK police make 2 Trojan computer virus arrests

Technology / Internet

Nov 18, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 10

(AP) -- A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday.

A sign marks the entrance to IBM Corporate Headquarters

IBM makes Big Blue cloud

Technology / Software

Nov 16, 2009 | 2.9 / 5 (8) | 8

IBM on Monday announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs.

Google's SPDY will speed up downloads

Technology / Internet

Nov 16, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (16) | 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers ...