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Dell buys Acer buys Dell buys Acer buys….???
Posted by 
Michael Walsh) on Mar 12 2007 | Tagged as: Acer, Dell, Inquirer
Last week alarm bells were ringing across the globe after a leading Wall Street analyst suggested that Dell might buy Acer.
This week it’s a little different.
Over at The Inquirer word is Acer’s about to buy another PC company, going so far as to write: Acer told the Wall Street Journal that it wants to buy a PC player this year and is looking at some “candidates”…
However it goes, things are heating up in the PC market…
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Acer accused of being an 800 pound gorilla - and it’s great!
Posted by Michael Walsh) on Jan 19 2007 | Tagged as: Acer, Acer Ferrari, Gartner, Inquirer
As I wrote a few days ago, Acer put in an amazing performance last year, conceding third place to Lenovo but making up so much ground overall, it’s getting noticed (and not just for its Ferraris!).
So much so, that in an article over on the Inquirer, HP and Dell have been advised to look in their rear-view mirrors for Acer, an 800-pound gorilla that increased sales by 37.1 percent for the whole of 2006, according to Gartner numbers for Q4.
The same article also suggests that Acer is looking to tie up with US retail giant Best Buy to sell notebooks from February which could generate a 100 percent rise in US sales.
I wonder where we’ll be this time next year?
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