Advice to tech-stock holders: get out, get into cash: amid oversupply and weak demand, Taiwan PC growth isn't expected to be good in quarter
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Stock market observers in Taiwan are cautioning investors against acquiring additional high technology stocks, especially in the electronics sector, due to the bleak forecast for the entire PC industry. Investors in Taiwan are buying up computer shares only because these are the only ones moving. But many stock analysts believe that the PC sales are going to be depressed for a long time, with sales in dollar terms expected to grow only 6.4% for 1998, the slowest in its ten year period. Analysts are even recommending investors to stay away from the shares of Taiwan's established players in the computer industry such as Acer, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering and Asustek Computer.
Publication Name: The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0191-0132
Year: 1998
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Taiwan's Acer has some fancy ideas for group's new plain and simple PC
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Acer Inc. plans to launch its stripped-down personal computer called AcerBasic for about $500. AcerBasic's dimensions are comparable to a small pizza box and it features Windows 3.1 software, a DOS operating system and rudimentary word-processing software. Acer hopes to market the new computer through special agreements with telecommunications operators that would allow them to offer AcerBasic as a free package to Internet subscribers. In addition, the company intends to offer special custom-tailoring services to various AcerBasic buyers.
Publication Name: The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0191-0132
Year: 1996
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Energetic chairman of Taiwan's Acer strives to expand computer firm's base
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Acer Chmn. and CEO Stan Shih is on a marketing expansion binge. Acer's top official hopes to land the Taiwanese computer firm among the top five PC brands worldwide by 1997. The company's multimedia PC is fast gaining a larger share of the worldwide market, while the demand for its memory chips and other PC-related peripherals is also making headway. Its promising markets include Russia, India, Israel and even Japan.
Publication Name: The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0191-0132
Year: 1995
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