What happened to Gateway computers?

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Dave Farquhar at The Silicon Underground answers two versions of the same question: who bought Gateway computers, and who bought the company. The short answer to the second one is Acer, on October 17, 2007, for $710 million. Gateway had been the subject of multi-billion-dollar merger rumors with…