There was a time in the mid 1990s that if you bought a PC that it was delivered in a box with cow markings. Gateway 2000 was the hot build-to-order direct sales PC maker in the 1990s. This was after ...

Suitors once offered $7 billion for Gateway, but after a decade of missteps and bad luck, the company is snapped up for a modest $710 million. Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, ...

Taiwan’s Acer will buy Gateway for $710 million to double its presence in the U.S. and unseat China’s Lenovo as the world’s No. 3 PC maker. Acer is absorbing a company founded in an Iowa farmhouse in ...

Gateway is back! One of the earliest American PC companies, Gateway may be most remembered for its black-and-white-spotted “cow” logo, a reference to the company’s start (as Gateway 2000) on a farm ...

Gateway will pare down its line of consumer electronics--at least for a time--as it focuses on getting back to profitability. Despite having made some headway in consumer electronics, the ...

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One month after stepping back in as chief executive of Gateway Inc., company co-founder Ted Waitt is refocusing the $9.7 billion company around the PC in a move that shatters the notion that the ...

For much of its first 15 years, Gateway Inc. was the popular and whimsical PC vendor of America’s heartland, complete with cute black-and-white-cow-themed shipping boxes and humorous magazine ...

Gateway will report earnings today. If the past is any guide, they’re likely to be disappointing, and they’re likely to be accompanied by yet another shift in strategy. In less than six years, Gateway ...

Theodore W. Waitt has long relished the role of high-tech maverick. When the rest of the PC industry took itself oh so seriously, the ponytailed Waitt put cow spots on his boxes. That was a whimsical ...

If you look at the pictures on Gateway’s Web site, the E-2000 and E-4000 “managed PCs” — that is; business desktops or network clients — appear in either conventional minitower or stylish microtower ...