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27 Jan 2012

Acer to use Olympics as B2B lighthouse

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Consumer-focused vendor gears up for assault on SMB and corporate market

26 Jan 2012

Acer’s Olympic dream

Acer: We’ve learned from past mistakes

Acer: We’ve learned from past mistakes

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Vendor claims channel inventory levels now down to a month in the UK

24 Jan 2012

Acer shows some channel love

Acer elects new board in wake of channel stock woes

Acer’s Olympic dream

Following a cloak-and-dagger bus tour of the Olympic Park with no stopping allowed, Sara Yirrell gets a sneaky peak at the mammoth challenge facing the vendor this summer

19 Jan 2012

No Christmas cheer for western European PC market

Lack of consumer demand means market remains in the doldrums, Gartner numbers reveal

12 Jan 2012

Former Acer UK boss bounces back

Bobby Watkins signs first client for his vendor consultancy business

10 Jan 2012

Samsung enjoys tablet ASP rise as market continues to soar

Context numbers pick out Korean manufacturer as a clear best of the rest in western Europe after an impressive Q4

03 Jan 2012

Dell axes consumer netbooks

Hardware giant calls time on consumer netbook sales

16 Dec 2011

Alicia Shepherd

14 Dec 2011

ChannelWeb's top five most read

A rundown of the five most-read stories on ChannelWeb last week

12 Dec 2011

Acer makes UK channel manager role redundant

Vendor continues to shuffle management pack in the wake of Bobby Watkins' departure

07 Dec 2011

Fright night: This year's biggest horror stories

We mark Halloween by running through 2011's biggest nightmares. Read on if you dare

31 Oct 2011

Acer confirms departure of UK chief

PC vendor's UK managing director will leave the firm at the end of 2011 but will hand over day-to-day responsibilities early next month

25 Oct 2011

Good week/Bad week

We take a peek at who's set fair and who's had a mare over the last seven days

24 Oct 2011

Double-digit drop for apathetic European PC market

Channels loath to stock up and consumers more interested in mobile devices, says IDC

20 Oct 2011

EMEA channel reluctant to take on Acer stock

Acer’s EMEA shipments slump by 39 per cent in Q3 as channel exercises cautious stance on placing orders

13 Oct 2011

Touch point for convenience

Pricing will be key for tablet vendors wanting a slice of Apple, says Salman Chaudhry

19 Sep 2011

Lanci fancies Lenovo chances

Former Acer kingpin rocks up at rival to help drive integration of Medion and boost consumer presence

16 Sep 2011

Acer shows some channel love

Vendor calls channel the lifeblood of the Acer machine as it moves on from inventory woes earlier this year

08 Sep 2011

Acer to spend 2011 in the red after miserable Q2

Sales slump by a third and quarterly losses reach £150m for embattled PC maker

25 Aug 2011

Piracy fight moves online

Recently launched site invites channel to join fight against online counterfeit product sales

05 Aug 2011

Inventory pile-up leaves mark on Q2 PC sales

Western European shipments nose-dive 21 per cent, with Acer the worst hit, says IDC

21 Jul 2011

Acer to build own-brand cloud after iGware buy

Chinese PC titan to create Acer Cloud to manage all compute platforms after acquiring US firm for $320m

21 Jul 2011

Acer plunges two places in global PC market

Vendor's recent inventory woes have caused a ranking slump

14 Jul 2011

Acer tablet sales beat expectations

Iconia enjoys first-month Western European channel sales of more than 20,000, Context figures reveal

06 Jul 2011

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CRN Partner Connect 2012

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CRN's premier networking event is back on 17 May at the Ricoh Arena

Date: Thu 17 May 2012

CRN Fight Night 2012

One of the fights from CRN Fight Night 2010

Channel fighters preparing to square up once more on 24 May

Date: Thu 24 May 2012

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