Tuesday, May 3, 2011

10 founding companies of the world laptop

1. Michael Dell, founder of Dell



Dell Inc. seems more focused on efforts to reduce costs rather than issue a new innovation. This is in line with the history of the company in marketing the units with minimum cost through direct sales to consumers. In an interview with Business Week, Mr. Dell said, "This company knows how to do something never done before with good.

2. Stan Shih, founder of Acer



Was first established under the name Multitech, founded in 1976, who then called the Acer in 1987. Pan Acer Group employs 39,000 people in more than 100 countries. Her income in 2002 was U.S. $ 12.9 billion. Its headquarters is located in Sijhih City, Taipei County, Taiwan. Acer's market in North America have declined in recent years while its European markets continue to rise. His success in Europe partly because the sponsorship of the Ferrari Formula 1 Team and former F1 team, Prost Grand Prix.

3. Ichisuke Hisashige Fujioka and Tanaka, the founder of Toshiba




Toshiba is a company that manufactures high-tech electronics that is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Toshiba is the world's largest electronics company. Toshiba now mostly made ​​in China. Toshiba-made Semiconductors including the 20th Semiconductors with Biggest Sale. In 2009, Toshiba is the fifth largest computer company in the world, under the U.S. Hewlett-Packard, Dell of the U.S., Acer of Taiwan and Lenovo of China.

4. Jonney Shih and Jerry Shen, the founder Asus





Asustek Computer, Inc.. or often called ASUS, is a Taiwan-based company that manufactures computer components like mother boards, graphic cards, and notebooks. Asus recently began producing PDAs, Mobile phones, LCD monitors and other computer products. Its main competitors include the MSI, and Gigabyte.

5. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, founders of HP


When about to call his company, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard did throw a coin to determine the name that will be used, whether Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. After seeing his name now is Hewlett-Packard, but who won the coin toss is not Bill Hewlett, but Dave Packard.

6. Rod Canion, founder of Compaq


Compaq Computer Corporation was once a United States personal computer company founded in 1982, and now is one brand from the company Hewlett-Packard. The company was founded by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, a former Texas Instruments senior managers. The name "COMPAQ" stands for "Compatibility and Quality" (compatibility and quality), and at the time of establishment, Compaq produced a number of IBM PC compatible computer. Ever become the largest supplier of personal computer systems in the world, Compaq became an independent company until 2002, when joined with Hewlett-Packard.

7. Liu Chuanzhi, founder of Lenovo


Lenovo Group Limited, formerly known as Legend Group, is the largest PC manufacturer in the People's Republic of China. In 2004, Lenovo is the eighth largest PC manufacturer in the world. In December 2004, Lenovo announced its intention to take over IBM's PC division, the American who never had a monopoly in the PC market. Takeover is expected to make Lenovo to expand its wings in the West in order to become the third largest PC manufacturer in the world. On May 1, 2005, Lenovo formally took over the IBM PC division

8. Akio Morita, the founder of Sony



Sony was founded on May 7, 1946 with the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering with about 20 employees. Their first consumer product was a rice in the late 1940's. Along with the development of Sony as a large international company, he bought other companies that have longer histories, including Columbia Records (the oldest record company that still exists, was established in 1888). The name "Sony" was chosen as a combination of Latin words Sonus, which is the root of sonic and sound, and the English word sonny ("child") who after a combined mean that a small group of young people who have energy and willpower to the creation and innovative idea that will not terbataskan. At that time, it is very strange for a Japanese company to use Roman letters to spell his name, let alone the use of phonetic characters used in Japanese writing (instead of using Chinese characters). And in 1958, the company began to formally adopt the name "Sony Corporation" as the name of the company. Easy to use and easy to spell in all languages ​​of the world. Name Sony menggaungkan spirit of freedom and openness in innovation.

9. Steve Jobs, Apple founder


Apple, Inc.. (formerly known as Apple Computer, Inc..) is a company located in Silicon Valley, Cupertino, Calif., who is engaged in computer technology. Apple helped bermulanya personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and promote its products since the 1980's until now with the Macintosh. Apple hardware is famous for his creations, like the iMac, Macbook, iPod music player devices, and mobile phones iPhone. Some ciptaanya software has been able to compete in a creative field such as Final Cut Pro video editors, sound editors Logic Pro and iTunes music player that also functions as an online music store.

10. David Kartono, founder Axioo



Indonesia should be proud because of Axioo, one of the local brand computer products successfully penetrate the ranks of the world and become one of the products that adopt the second-generation Intel Core processor. Axioo Neon HNM becomes first 14-inch notebook in the world who already use the technology, the processor formerly known as Sandy Bridge.

COURTESY OF www.melorot.blogspot.com

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