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• Lenovo on top for Q1 as PC shipments dip

  Lenovo has maintained its top position as the most shipped PC vendor as 80.5 million PCs were shipped during the first quarter of 2022.

• Emersion makes ‘aggressive’ partner push with Vai Le as first channel chief

  Emersion has tapped Vai Le as its first channel alliance manager for Asia Pacific, tasking him with “aggressively” ramping up its partner numbers.

• PC shipment gains continue as students, workers remain remote

  Last year’s supply-chain disruptions and increased demand brought on by the pandemic both contributed to the sustained growth.

• Ranking the top 5 PC vendors in Asia

  Lenovo has placed ahead of HP, Dell Technologies, Asus and Acer in a PC market preparing for “challenging times ahead” across Asia Pacific.

• Language barriers, Lunar New Year and NDA impasse: How ASUS and Kaspersky fell out over Live Update hack

  Kaspersky Lab’s dealings with ASUS after revealing the Taiwanese computer brand’s live software update tool was being used to install a malicious backdoor on its customer’s computers were marred by a language barrier, the timing of Lunar New Year and wrangling over a non-disclosure agreement, it has been revealed.

• Asus implements fix for malware attack

  Asus has released an update to fix an attack, which had targeted one million-plus Asus users last year by hijacking the computer maker's software update system.

• Hackers attacked one million-plus Asus users through malicious update

  Hackers were able to deliver malware to the more one million-plus Asus computer owners last year by hijacking the vendor’s software update system.

• Philips and Asus slapped with multi-million dollar e-commerce fines

  Four consumer electronics vendors have been fined US$130 million by EU antitrust regulators for imposing fixed or minimum online prices.

• Early indications show PC shipment growth for first time in six years

  Worldwide PC shipments totalled 62.1 million units in the second quarter of 2018, a 1.4 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2017.

• Asus, D-Link and Huawei devices also targeted in global malware campaign

  Cisco's Talos unit has found that the actor behind the global VPNFilter malware campaign also targeted Asus, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE devices.

• HP, Lenovo and Dell expand global PC dominance

  The three mega-vendors made up nearly 57 per cent of the global PC shipments, which topped out at around 61.7 million units, for the quarter.

• 2017 capped off a six-year decline in global PC shipments

  Worldwide PC and notebook shipments have marked six consecutive years of decline after closing 2017 with a 2.8 per cent fall.