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Acer buys Gateway; bumps to No. 3

Acer Gateway Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer Inc. announced yesterday that it’s acquiring US-based Gateway Computers.

Once the acquisition is complete, it will put Acer as the no. 3 PC-maker worldwide.

The Gateway sale is pegged at $710 million, or $1.90 per share will help make the Taiwanese company a bigger player in the worldwide market, next only to Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP). It will overtake Lenovo for that 3rd spot.

The combination will create a multi-branded PC-company with over US$15 billion in revenues and shipments in excess of 20 million PC units per year. The acquisition is expected to close by December 2007. Gateway is the 4th largest PC brand in the US.

Official announcement published at Acer Global News Release.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

5 Responses

  1. Avatar for fidel oliva fidel oliva says:

    one real good news as i bought my gateway laptop in the united states of a. I was worried about its product support. now it’s here.

  2. Avatar for BrianB BrianB says:

    Good, bagay silang dalawa.

  3. Avatar for Kiven Kiven says:

    ohhhhh Gemstone….

  4. Avatar for jhay jhay says:

    Hope it will mean cheaper Acer notebooks. :D

  5. Avatar for Jaypee Jaypee says:

    This is good news as it means more competition for HP and Dell. As always competition is good for us consumers. :D

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