Acer buys Gateway, market share
Gateway, whose classic startup success story and moo-cow-fashioned packaging materials bolstered its position in the late 90's as a dominant computer manufacturer, just got bought by Taiwan-based Acer for $710 million. That means the third-largest PC maker is now Acer. Can't say that we would've ever predicted that back when Gateway was flying so high, making acquisitions of its own, and ...





