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...spotted Bill looking chic in Cabot Science Library with this laptop bag—more staid than your average man purse—which he acquired a year ago to hold his Dell computer. He describes his bag as functional, but says he usually sports a backpack. “The bag makes me look serious,” says Little, “but I assure...
...What was the thinking in picking these particular partners? Each of them represents a different strategic thrust. In Dell's case, if you look at the demographic of who they sell to, they're heavy Google users, so they were a logical big partner for software distribution for us. In the case of MySpace, it's generally well known that they are the breakout in social networks. Everybody's moving to MySpace, basically. And all the numbers say that their growth rate is much higher than anybody else's. They're much, much larger than the others. Intuit has something...
Google realized while negotiating a deal with Dell that it needed to stretch its existing user base. That May agreement will put Google's toolbar on millions of Dell machines, and it prompted Google execs to seek other such alliances. Those partners "have a way of reaching customers that we do not on our own," Schmidt says, "and each represents a different strategic thrust...
Lenovo must win market share beyond China to boost profitability. It has only 7.7% of the global market, to Dell's 19.1%. The PC market is slowing too. IDC predicts that global PC-sales growth will dip to 10.8% this year, from 16% in 2005. Lenovo "will be treading water until the market goes into a growth mode," says Richard Shim, senior analyst...
Still, there may be opportunity. Dell is wounded, reeling from plummeting profits and a major laptop recall. Amelio's aggressive plan might be what Lenovo needs to become a global PC heavyweight. "Amelio is doing exactly what needs to be done," says Joseph Ho, an analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research in Hong Kong. And if Lenovo gets some breathing room, maybe He, the chief technology officer, can focus on learning how to tell a Tar Heel from a Blue Devil...