The increasing popularity of tablet computers and smartphones combined with the weak economy are making life difficult for PC maker Dell. The company said on August 21 that its profit in the second quarter shrank 18 per cent to 732 million dollars, on revenue of 14.5 billion dollars, which was lower than the second quarter last year by 7.5 per cent.
Chief financial officer Brian Gladden said PC business is in a challenging phase, with desktop computers as well as notebooks selling worse than in the second quarter of 2011. At one time Dell was the second-largest maker of PCs behind Hewlett-Packard and, according to market research company Gartner, is now fourth behind H-P, Lenovo and Acer.
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