Articles about Acer

Hey, Acer: Is that a rounding error, or did you actually make a profit?

Actually, it was a little financial magic wot won it

Acer slashes book worth of brands by £76m

Value of Gateway, Packard Bell, eMachines and E-Ten cut

Acer's Wang: Size of PC shipments to shrink month after month

'Bottom out' prediction for Q1

Acer's tiny raft of profit smashed onto rocks by Gateway and co

PC maker dives into the red thanks to $120m write-down

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Mighty Acer still weaving after 2011's knockdown punch

The once unstoppable sales juggernaut Acer still hasn't regained the momentum that carried it close to the top of the PC market, certainly if its Q3 prelims are anything to go by. Revenues for the calendar third quarter slid 5.6 per cent to NT$104.4bn (£2.22bn), down 11.4 per cent on the same period a year ago. The problem is …

Acer is the latest maker to delay plans for a Windows RT fondletop

Acer has postponed the release of its Windows RT tab on the channels say so as it waits to see how market adoption rates develop. The Taiwanese giant had planned to push out its version around February next year but EMEA president Oliver Ahrens confirmed the date has slipped by a couple of months. "We talk to channel partners …

Acer bigwig sees gloomy future for Ultrabooks in Europe

These people just aren't ready to take a 13-incher

Acer: Windows 8 'uncertainty' deflates Wang's big growth aim

After Surface slag-off fest, CEO risks Redmond wrath again

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Acer dishing out 16,400 cheap OLYMPIC laptops to schools

Acer plans to flog 500 "Olympic" laptops to school children in North East London after the Games close. The Taiwanese firm has also promised that the other 15,900 computers they put into London 2012 will be packaged up and sent into schools around the UK. The PCs were used for everything from planning athletes' travel to …

Ultrabooks to account for 35% of Acer laptop shipments

We already know that, having failed to set the world alight with its tablets, Acer is keen to talk up alternatives, most notably Intel's Ultrabook platform. So it comes as little surprise that the PC maker is saying it's going to sell a lot of them this year. Specifically, it reckons at least a quarter and perhaps more than a …

Former Acer CEO Lanci trousered £27m after PC-mountain cockup

We just wanted issue settled quickly, says Wang

Acer pulls out Wang, thrusts its wealth at Ho

Tech titan treats itself to vigorous shuffle

Acer Q1 profit falls

Not yet time for turnaround time

Acer limps into 2012 with declining January sales

Planned 2012 revival falters

Banks bung hard-up Acer £315m loan

Five-year deal to get back on its feet

Acer set to unleash 15in fibreglass MONSTER

Taiwanese hardware maker to expand Ultrabook range

Acer's proud Wang: We're on the rise at last

Return to profit in Q4 can't stave off £142m loss in 2011

Distie Stordis plans to steer clear of Acer server biz

Server shortages and lead times 'not a pleasant experience'

Acer vows to lose its rep as cheap consumer tat-pusher

Acer UK disties expect big things of new boss

Acer sues ex-boss Lanci for shacking up with Lenovo

Acer big cheese: Microsoft Surface sales will be 'superficial'

Acer UK boss Watkins quits

Acer execs play musical chairs

Acer cuts losses and inventory in Q3

Acer EMEA boss: PC crash hit us like a coal mine GAS BLAST

Acer restructure continues as another honcho heads out

Acer first PC vendor to confirm price hike

Acer has become the first major PC vendor to confirm a price rise in response to flooding in Thailand, which it says has led to a 20 per cent hike in the cost of disk drives. This comes just days after Acer described the outlook for HDD supplies as uncertain, while rivals firms agreed drive component prices would head north, and …