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[Posted on September 7, 2007 - 4:00 PM]
Apple Inc.'s decision to slash the cost of the iPhone to a mere $400, triggering outrage from customers who had paid a full $600 for the company's latest object of technolust, illustrates how fluid the rules of mobile media are. Even Steve Jobs is making it up as he goes. It's not as though iPhones weren't moving. In July,...

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[Posted on September 5, 2007 - 5:37 PM]
You know that a company is not in a great place when the best you can say about it is that it sees its own failures. That was the general takeaway on Palm Inc.'s announcement on Tuesday to cancel its much-hyped but widely-panned Foleo mobile computing product before shipping it to customers. True, it was better that the company...

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[Posted on September 4, 2007 - 5:05 PM]
Acquisitions are rarely a piece of cake, but Wang Jen-tang, the chief executive of PC maker Acer Inc., is getting more than he bargained for following his company's decision to buy struggling rival Gateway Inc. last week for $710 million. Acer's share price has plummeted 11% since the deal was announced Aug. 27, and analysts have questioned whether Acer will be...

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[Posted on August 8, 2007 - 4:26 PM]
The ever-shrinking group of PC manufacturers is a small world. Reuters suggests that, following news of Lenovo Group Ltd.'s interest in Packard Bell BV, it's not really a stretch to see Lenovo making a play for Gateway Inc. too. The main connection is that computer exec Lap Shun Hui has his hands in both companies. Hui used to own eMachines,...

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[Posted on August 6, 2007 - 6:32 PM]
Summer is generally a slow time for M&A, but Dell Inc. isn't on vacation as it acquires its third company in less than a month. Dell said Monday afternoon that it plans to acquire consumer-focused Zing Systems Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Dell, which last week spent $340 million acquiring ASAP Software Inc. and in mid-July acquired IT management...

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[Posted on August 2, 2007 - 2:17 PM]
Dell Inc.'s $340 million deal Thursday for ASAP Software Inc. underscores the computer maker's push into information technology services. Dell has long offered IT services, but it never really focused on them in the way rivals Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp. do. That appears to be changing as Dell announces its second deal of the summer. It acquired Silverback...

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[Posted on August 1, 2007 - 3:35 PM]
Bull SA chairman Didie Lamouche quelled speculation this week that the French IT hardware maker is in talks to be acquired by tech giant Hewlett-Packard Co. "No negotiation is underway, and we haven't received any formal proposal," the chairman said at a news conference on first-half results, according to Forbes.com. This news came after Bull's shares had skyrocketed last...

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[Posted on July 31, 2007 - 5:10 PM]
Shares of Cambridge Display Technology Inc. shot up nearly 89% Tuesday, closing at $11.62, on news that Sumitomo Chemical Co. is acquiring the company for $12 a share, or $285 million, in cash. You can see why. The deal is an absolute lifeline for investors in CDT, a money-losing maker of flat-panel displays whose shares have languished since the...

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[Posted on July 9, 2007 - 4:59 PM]
BreakingViews suggested that Microsoft Corp. spin off its entertainment division responsible for the Xbox 360. The idea is that the money-losing video game venture would stop dragging on the bottom line. The BreakingViews suggestion is the classic near-sightedness that the stock market forces on companies. Instead of taking the long-term view that the Xbox could help Microsoft eventually grow...

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[Posted on July 5, 2007 - 5:05 PM]
The deal reached last month by troubled handset maker Palm Inc. to sell a 25% stake to private equity firm Elevation Partners for $325 million was widely viewed as a compromise by a company that could not find an outright buyer. Palm confirms as much in a recent regulatory filing. According to Barron's, multiple partners, including Elevation, considered but rejected...

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