Acer needs help getting ahead, and Gateway needs help keeping up. Both hope a merger will do the trick -- and put them ahead of rival Lenovo in the process.
After a spate of consolidations in the customer relationship management sector that saw both Siebel and PeopleSoft snapped up by Oracle, there will be no letup in merger activity, according to analysts Gartner.
Hewlett Packard's proposed acquisition of Texan IT services giant Electronic Data Systems has won approval from the European Commission.
Billions of dollars worth of acquisitions have bought Oracle a perhaps unexpected bonus: security lessons.
Few people in the high-tech industry have feuded as openly as Oracle's flamboyant CEO Lawrence Ellison and Thomas Siebel, the co-founder and chairman of rival enterprise software maker Siebel Systems.
Let's not go back to the bad old days where telco and vendor incumbents were unchallenged.
Fuelled by Oracle's acquisition of Siebel Systems, Silicon Valley once again asks itself if megamergers are good for the industry.
Few people in the high-tech industry have feuded as openly as Oracle's flamboyant CEO Lawrence Ellison and Thomas Siebel, the co-founder and chairman of rival enterprise software maker Siebel Systems.
video AT&T's David Dorman discusses how his company plans to re-enter the wireless business after the pending $41 billion merger between Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless later this year.
The PeopleSoft-J.D. Edwards merger will enhance the combined entity's standing in the enterprise software space in Australia and pose a serious threat to SAP.
Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft sets the stage for a slugfest in the enterprise apps space but where does this leave Mr Customer?
Hewlett-Packard and Compaq's merger plans raise questions about which firm's handheld range will survive in the long term, but both are likely to continue for the present.
Palm pioneered the smart phone, but if rumours prove true, the Treo maker may not survive as an independent company to watch its creation move from the corner office to the street corner.
Once the toast of the gadget market, personal digital assistants have been losing some of their fizz and in 2002 continued a steady slide.
From downloading emails to surfing on the go, phone-PDA (personal digital assistant) hybrids have long promised users higher productivity in today's Web-connected world.
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