{"id":737,"date":"2006-03-23T14:40:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T19:40:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:48","slug":"dell_to_acquire_alienware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2006\/03\/23\/dell_to_acquire_alienware\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell to acquire Alienware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?404\">TechRepublic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Dell has agreed to purchase gaming PC maker Alienware, in a rare acquisition designed to improve Alienware&#8217;s supply chain and boost Dell&#8217;s standing among PC enthusiasts.<br \/>\nadvertisement<\/p>\n<p>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alienware will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the world&#8217;s largest PC maker, said Nelson Gonzalez, chief executive officer of Alienware. Gonzalez will now report to Jim Schneider, Dell&#8217;s chief financial officer, but the company will operate separately from Dell, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A Dell representative confirmed the deal, but said the company was deferring comment until later on Wednesday. A Dell representative in Australia had downplayed the possibility of a deal earlier this month. The transaction should be finalized about 30 to 45 days after regulatory hurdles are cleared, Gonzalez said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TechRepublic: Dell has agreed to purchase gaming PC maker Alienware, in a rare acquisition designed to improve Alienware&#8217;s supply chain and boost Dell&#8217;s standing among PC enthusiasts. advertisement Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alienware will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the world&#8217;s largest PC maker, said Nelson Gonzalez, chief &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}