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Acer sues former CEO over non-compete agreement

Chris Davies, Feb 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

Acer has sued former CEO Gianfranco Lanci, alleging that the exec breached a non-compete clause when he left the firm in 2011 and took a position with Lenovo. Lanci's role at Lenovo is as a consultant focusing on assisting the computer firm to build itself as a consumer brand, something that Acer obviously believes oversteps the mark. Read The Full Story

Lenovo grabs ex-Acer CEO for consumer brand push

Chris Davies, Sep 19th 2011 Discuss [2]

Lenovo has snapped up ex-Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci, who will act as a consultant for the company with particular emphasis on building it as a consumer brand. Lanci - who left Acer back in March over disagreements around device strategy with the company's board - will focus on Medion, the European computing firm Lenovo acquired in June. Previous rumors had suggested that Samsung was eyeing Lanci for his Euro notebook insight. Read The Full Story

Acer reports first quarterly loss, victim of iPad success

Rue Liu, Aug 24th 2011 Discuss [6]

Acer is the second largest PC manufacturer in the world with a record winning streak of quarterly earnings only to be dashed with a worse-than-expected quarterly loss reported today. The company has seen its netbook sales eaten away by the popularity of tablets while the company has struggled with internal strategy transitions in the first half of the year. Read The Full Story

Acer founder: Tablets are fads, Post-PC is misguided

Chris Davies, Aug 5th 2011 Discuss [9]

Acer's founder has described both tablets and Ultrabooks as short-term "fads" and scolded PC manufacturers to look to Apple's "outside-the-box thinking" with the iPad; however, the outspoken ex-exec is also unconvinced by Steve Jobs' insistence that we now live in a "post-PC" world. Stan Shih, who founded what we now know as Acer in 1976, argued that - in contrast to Apple's marginalization of the computer - PCs remain the basis of the IT industry. Read The Full Story

Samsung courting ex-Acer CEO for Euro tech expertise?

Chris Davies, Jul 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

Samsung is tipped to be hunting after ex-Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci, with the outspoken exec seen as a potentially valuable source of European notebook insight, according to new leaks. Both Samsung and Dell have supposedly been courting Lanci, DigiTimes' sources claim, after he left Acer back in March following disagreements with the company's board. Read The Full Story

Acer Slashes 2011 Tablet Shipments By 60 Percent

Rue Liu, Jun 15th 2011 Discuss [1]

Acer's original optimism for its tablet sales this year are now facing the realities of tough competition. The company has just revised its forecasts for this year's tablet and notebook shipments, cutting down estimates by as much as 60 percent. Who's to blame? Apple's iPad 2 and the slow recovery of the European economy. Read The Full Story

Acer slashes bonuses, salaries & staff over $150m inventory “abnormalities”

Chris Davies, Jun 2nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Bad news if you were hoping for a nice Christmas present from Acer chairman and CEO J.T. Wang. The exec is forgoing a salary for his role as director and, indeed, waiving his 2010 bonus, as part of an attempt to make up for a $150m write-off over "high channel inventory and disputed accounts receivable in EMEA." The company hasn't detailed exactly what issues have been uncovered, simply describing it as "abnormalities in terms of channel inventory stored in freight forwarders’ warehouses." Read The Full Story

New Acer CEO promises to “aggressively yet cautiously” chase Apple

Chris Davies, Apr 19th 2011 Discuss [2]

Acer has found itself a new corporate president, with Jim Wong - previously the corporate senior vice president - taking over from Gianfranco Lanci who quit at the end of March. Wong used to helm the IT Products Group and will, according to Acer's press release, lead the company to "aggressively yet cautiously develop data-consumption products, tablet PCs and smartphones based on the solid foundation of the main PC business." Read The Full Story

Acer CEO quits over product development disagreements [Updated]

Chris Davies, Mar 31st 2011 Discuss [0]

Acer CEO and President Gianfranco Lanci has resigned, stepping down from the company with immediate effect. Acer claims the change - which will see chairman J.T. Wang take the acting CEO role in the interim - was down to Lanci holding "different views from a majority of the board members" which "could not reach a consensus following several months’ of dialog." Read The Full Story

Acer To Launch Windows Phone 7 Devices This Fall

Rue Liu, Feb 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

Acer is the latest to embrace Windows Phone 7 as the company says they are preparing mobile devices for release in either September or October in 2011. Pocket-lint says an Acer spokesperson confirmed the information for the Fall release. Read The Full Story

Acer set to launch tablet computer line next month

Shane McGlaun, Oct 27th 2010 Discuss [2]

There is a huge amount of buzz and a huge demand for tablet computers right now thanks to the iPad. There are few offerings on the market though that users can choose from and computer makers are rushing to fix that lack of choice. Read The Full Story

MeeGo gets serious: Wistron, Quanta & CZC tablets spied [Video]

Chris Davies, Jun 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

Intel are going full steam ahead with MeeGo at Computex this week, with multiple name-checks for the open-source OS during the keynote and several manufacturers implicated in pushing out MeeGo-based devices. In among the Oak Trail/Canoe Lake information was confirmation that Acer will be developing MeeGo tablets and netbooks, while there are brief details on Quanta's Redvale MeeGo tablet, together with the Wistron W1 and CZC P10T tablets spotted by Carrypad on show at the Intel booth. Demo video after the cut Read The Full Story