Star Acer To Acquire Gateway
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Aug 2007 15:38 UTC, submitted by shykid
Hardware, Embedded Systems Taiwan's leading computer seller Acer is to take over US PC maker Gateway in a USD 710m deal. The takeover will create the world's third largest producer of personal computers, with shipments of more than 20 million PCs and sales of USD 15bn. The deal may also see Acer try to block Chinese rival Lenovo from buying Packard Bell's operations in Europe.
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It's sad how far Gateway has fallen
by MollyC on Mon 27th Aug 2007 17:05 UTC
MollyC
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2006-07-04

Only 710 million? I didn't realize Gateway had fallen so far from their height of the mid to late 1990's.

I wonder if Acer will change its name to Gateway. A few year ago the video game maker Engram (I believe that was their name) bought "Atari" (whatever was left of it) from Hasbro, and then changed their name to "Atari". So the stronger company bought a weak one and changed its name to that of the weak one because that name was better known.

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-pekr- Member since:
2006-03-28

Hehe, MollyC, and Gateway owns Amiga trademarks IIRC :-) So it is still possible, they will change its name to something else, starting on "A" :-)

btw - I really doubt it, Acer would adopt GW's name. GW is completly unknown here in Europe for e.g.

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erebos Member since:
2006-02-09

@-pekr-
Yes, Gateway owns Amiga IP, it's a shame Acer won't use it nor the name. I'm asking myself if they will ever see that they own the Amiga trademarks.

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vimh Member since:
2006-02-04

It was Infogrames. They bought Hasbro (who owned Atari) and then renamed their US subsidiary Atari. I don't know if the brand name really did much for them. I played a number of games they published (Hasbro owned the IP).

I don't know about most gamers but I pay more attention to the developers (both studio and individuals) than I do publisher.

With computers it's kinda similar. I look at the hardware a company puts into their computer. Who's video card, what chipset & MB, who's RAM and so on. The big name on the computer box has less of an impact.

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