Xerox has said it will continue to pursue HP Inc, even after the PC maker said it would implement a poison pill plan to shield itself against a takeover offer from the U.S. printer maker.
Xerox has raised its offer to buy HP by US$2 to US$24 per share, following several rejections of its previous buyout offer by the PC maker.
HP has taken aim at activist investor Carl Icahn, naming him personally in a rebuttal to Xerox’s latest attempt to effect a takeover by offering up its own candidates to stand for election to HP’s board.
This year's global PC market isn’t expected to meet 2019’s growth due to disruptions across various markets and vendors not meeting the demand of new technologies.
The rumbling uncertainty surrounding Xerox’s proposed takeover of HP may have generated unintended opportunities for the print and PC vendor’s rivals.
"The worldwide production market saw gains as print service providers across the globe are investing in digital."
Imagine how different the computing world would be if IBM had used proprietary chips in the original PC, rather than off-the-shelf components. The PC clone market would never have happened, and IBM, rather than Microsoft, might have emerged as the leading company of the computer revolution.
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