Acer continues its rapid growth: according to this Business Week report, year on year sales increased 26% in the most recent quarter, with profits up 54%.  Earnings exceeded analyst estimates, and were heavily driven by growth in Asian sales. The Taiwanese company is tracking toward becoming the world’s largest PC maker.  H-P still leads, but [...]

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Apple’s iPad has opened the field  and taken the lead, but my belief is that pads based on Android will be with us soon – only a half-step behind Apple in technology and design, and much cheaper. Digitimes is reporting that Acer will have two such models out this year. Here is the Digitimes report [...]

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According to data from Gartner last week, the global market for PC’s grew 20.7% in the second quarter, compared to the year-earlier quarter.   Hewlett-Packard remains the global market leader with a 17.4% market share.   H-P’s sales unit sales grew 12.3% However, the bad news for H-P is that most of the growth was [...]

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According to a report in Digitimes, Acer will launch tablet computers based on Google’s Android software this year.  If this is true, it won’t be long before the iPad is facing some tough competition from Android based machines and heavy pressure on its margins.  What next? The Digitimes report is at http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100714PD218.html The list of [...]

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According to this post from India’s Financial Chronicle, Acer is currently Number One in sales of desktop computers and is targeting Number Two (for now) in notebooks in that country. Another step on the road to world domination? http://www.mydigitalfc.com/news/acer-aims-no-2-rank-notebooks-market-906 The list of Interesting Communities of Leadership is at http://lovingwork.org/interesting-communities-of-leadership Scott is scott@lovingwork.org and @scottdowns3 on Twitter.

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According to Gartner Group, more than 84 million PCs were shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2010.   H-P shipped the most, at 15.3 million, but Acer of Taiwan (J.T. Wang, CEO)  is now a clear number two, well ahead of traditional players like Dell and Toshiba.   According to Acer, citing Gartner statistics, [...]

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