{"id":40206,"date":"2013-06-19T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=40206"},"modified":"2013-06-19T08:43:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T06:43:18","slug":"acer-expects-flat-pc-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/40206\/acer-expects-flat-pc-shipments\/","title":{"rendered":"Acer expects flat PC shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acer Inc, the world&#8217;s No.4 PC vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects notebook and tablet PC shipment to be flat in the second quarter from the first quarter, versus an prediction of 0-5 percent growth made in April.<\/p>\n<p>Acer Chairman J.T. Wang made the comment to reporters at the firm&#8217;s annual shareholder meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Early this month, Wang told Reuters in an interview that he expects up to 80 percent of Acer&#8217;s products to have touch-screen technology by next year or the year after, hoping new tablets and touch-notebook computers will revive its sales in a PC market where quarterly shipments are at their lowest in nearly four years.<\/p>\n<p>Acer said its sales were 19 percent lower in the first five months than in the same period a year ago.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the PC market<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Intel stumbles as smart devices bite into PC market\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/35927\/intel-stumbles-as-smart-devices-bite-into-pc-market\/\"><strong>Intel stumbles as smart devices bite into PC market<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Samsung eats more of Apple\u2019s market\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/36654\/samsung-eats-more-of-apples-market\/\"><strong>Samsung eats more of Apple\u2019s market<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tablets spur smart connected device growth\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/34454\/tablets-spur-smart-connected-device-growth\/\"><strong>Tablets spur smart connected device growth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acer Inc, the world&#8217;s No.4 PC vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects notebook and tablet PC shipment to be flat in the second quarter from the first quarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1387,25,1063,707],"class_list":["post-40206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-acer","tag-active","tag-pcs","tag-shipments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40221,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40206\/revisions\/40221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}