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Packard Bell catches burning battery blight

I'll give the fire brigade a Bell

Acer slashes book worth of brands by £76m

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

Packard Bell to push BT broadband

Locked and loaded

Gateway and Packard Bell is done deal

Subject to regulators, workers etc.
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Acer shakes up exec team after Packard Bell buy

Acer has made a number of senior management changes as the Taiwan-based firm deepens its computer manufacturing footprint following the completed purchase of Packard Bell. It said in a statement that Semmy Levit, who was Acer's UK country manager for the past three years, has been promoted to the role of European head of the …
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NEC packs up Packard Bell

Lap Shun Hui has scored a success in his battle to collect the great PC brands of yesteryear by buying Packard Bell from NEC. NEC revealed the sale of its European PC operation earlier today but is keeping quiet on how much it got for the operation, Reuters reports. The news agency said Packard Bell turns over around $1bn a …

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

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

NEC to sell Packard-Bell to eMachines founder?

¥10bn punted for European PC arm
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Microsoft markets 'collection' of PCs to consider

Microsoft UK has unveiled its first 'collection' of PCs, chosen by the company to suit lifestyles and budgets. The spring collection features 30 models from nine manufacturers and will be available from all major retailers. The PC makers are Sony, Dell, Packard Bell, HP, Lenovo, Toshiba, Acer, Alienware and Scan. The Collection …
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Acer restructure continues as another honcho heads out

Restructuring at Acer continues with another high level director exiting the business in the wake of its inventory woes and declining sales. The firm parted with CEO Gianfranco Lanci in March and then began initiating an operational re-jig during the summer, creating three divisions: consumer, professional and Touch. Among the …

Acer slashes tablet forecast, banks on notebooks

Game of executive musical chairs ongoing too

Acer recalls 22,000 over microphone flame out fear

You're speaking too close to the fire

Acer uses Europe, Asia to bounce past profit forecasts

EMEA market boost

Tosh on top for laptop reliability

Our survey says...

NEC gives up on global PC sales

Stuff this, we're going home

No more buys from Acer

Digesting Gateway and Packard-Bell

Hitachi presses shut-down on PC line

So how many companies are still making PCs?

Acer launches server biz in the US

An indirect assault on HP, Dell, and IBM
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Carbonite muscles alongside Mozy in Lenovo

According to a report, Lenovo, which picked EMC's Mozy cloud backup for its SL business notebook line, has rejected EMC and picked competing Carbonite cloud backup for its consumer IdeaPad notebooks (Should we believe a single report? The reporting Mass High Tech journal looks solid and it directly quotes Carbonite CEO David …

Opinion

Joe Fay

Server boss comes to London, become hostage to fortune
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Tim Ayling

Er, what does that mean? Anything you want it to
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Eddie Pacey

Get your money up front if you want money up front

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