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Gateway Founder Waitt Back In As Chief Executive
News Amid a sharp downturn in its PC business, Gateway said Monday that chief executive Jeffrey Weitzen has stepped down and will be replaced by the company's founder and chairman, Ted Waitt. Weitzen replaced Waitt as chief executive on 1 January, 2000.
[January 30, 2001, 8:18]
Waitt To Step Down As CEO Of Gateway
News Dukker called Waitt's move out of the day-to-day PC biz "sad for the industry". Ted Waitt, who stepped aside as CEO of Gateway Wednesday, was a billionaire businessman with a ponytail, a risk-taker who frequently broke with convention.
[December 9, 1999, 9:40]
Gateway CEO: Defender Of Downloads
News If he finds himself dining at Spago anytime soon, Gateway chief executive Ted Waitt isn't likely to receive any bear hugs from the Hollywood moguls who favour this perennial Los Angeles hot spot. CNET News.com recently chatted with Waitt on why the...
[May 29, 2002, 16:46]
Gateway Plans A New Direction
News While some industry watchers are ready to write Gateway's obituary, founder Ted Waitt hopes to write a bright, new chapter in the folksy PC maker's history. Under Waitt's vision, Gateway will be more than just a PC maker: it will serve as the IT...
[August 10, 2001, 9:59]
Gateway's Weitzen: Low-profile, Fast Track
News The man who's stepping up to replace Ted Waitt as Gateway's CEO isn't a stranger inside the company. But even as the company's second highest executive, he has kept a low-profile and taken a backseat to Waitt, who has been to Gateway what Steve...
[December 9, 1999, 9:47]
Gateway Chief: It's Not About PCs
News "If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model," said Ted Waitt, Gateway's chairman and CEO, in an interview with ZDNN Wednesday. Gateway counts ad revenues among the benefits of the deal, Waitt...
[February 4, 1999, 9:21]
New CEO Should Not Impact Gateway Shares
News Analysts aren't expecting much of a reaction in the wake of Gateway's announcement that president Jeff Weitzen will replace the PC maker's founder, Ted Waitt, as its chief executive officer. Jeff's appointment to CEO is both a formalization of the...
[December 9, 1999, 9:52]
Gateway Misses Estimates As Sales Sag
News All in all, we've held our own.We've lost a little ground internationally, but we've made up for it with growth in our portables, as well as the education and small-business markets," chief executive Ted Waitt said in a conference call with...
[July 20, 2001, 9:30]
Amiga Loses Its Head: Collas Out
News Collas, who held a variety of management posts during his seven years at Gateway, had eagerly pressed company CEO Ted Waitt and was subsequently granted the top job at Amiga in January of this year. He also urged Waitt to let him run Amiga as a...
[September 2, 1999, 11:26]
Gateway To Lay Off Up To 25 Percent
News Gateway chief executive Ted Waitt told CNET News.com that the company made the decision to pull back internationally after deciding it didn't have the brand recognition, distribution channels or partnerships in global markets that it had in the...
[August 29, 2001, 8:34]
More Cuts At Gateway
News We have the liquidity and financial resources necessary to forgo short-term profits to regain long-term growth and sustainable profitability," Waitt said. Chief executive Ted Waitt said in a statement Thursday that the company can cut prices and...
[January 25, 2002, 8:35]
Gateway Gets Fifth CEO In Six Years
News In 1999, founder Ted Waitt stepped down as chief executive and brought in Jeff Weitzen from AT&T. Weitzen was fired in 2001 and Waitt took over again. Waitt subsequently resigned and turned the management of the company over to Wayne Inouye from...
[September 8, 2006, 13:35]
Gateway: What Slowdown?
News The strategy we've been executing for the past year is paying off with real, noticeable momentum in the consumer marketplace,'' said CEO Ted Waitt in a prepared release. There's no denying that the PC business continues to be very competitive, and...
[April 23, 1999, 8:07]
Gateway: Bigger Loss On The Way
News During a conference call, Gateway chief executive Ted Waitt added that he expects a return to profitability despite the fact that October is seasonally the second slowest month in terms of sales. While virtually every segment of our business was...
[October 5, 2001, 9:57]
Gateway Slashes Earnings Forecast
News It's not rocket science," Waitt said. CEO Ted Waitt said the company plans to return to profitability in the second half of the year, with unit sales slightly above those of a year ago. Gateway warned Wednesday that it will post only break-even...
[March 1, 2001, 8:20]
Acer Snaps Up Gateway
News In 1999, Waitt resigned and Jeff Weitzen took over as chief executive. In 1997, founder and chief executive Ted Waitt rejected a proposed merger with Compaq, a deal that would have made Gateway the consumer arm of the world's largest PC operation...
[August 28, 2007, 8:07]
Can Gateway Rise Again?
News Can Wayne Inouye succeed where Ted Waitt could not? That's the question making the rounds on both Wall Street and Main Street these days, as Inouye attempts to revive the momentum at this former high-flying computer maker.
[July 28, 2004, 11:30]
Gateway Signs-up Yahoo! For Personalised Portal.
News Gateway chairman Ted Waitt said that this was indicative of Gateway's "personalised approach" to marketing and added that for new Internet users it offered a one-stop window onto the Internet Called Gateway My Yahoo!
[February 3, 1999, 16:08]
Young, Rich And Wired
News Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos comes in second at $5.74bn, and Dell's chief rival Gateway CEO Ted Waitt is third, at $5.44bn. They're young, they're billionaires, and they're techno-savvy. Fortune Magazine in the US has produced a list of the richest...
[September 6, 1999, 14:03]
Is Bill Gates Throwing Off The Mantle Of Geekiness?
News Before and afterwards he cut the rug with a few routines on the dance floor while reporters, analysts and fellow industry captains like Gateway 2000 boss Ted Waitt and Traveling Software chief Mark Eppley gave him the space usually afforded to...
[November 19, 1997, 14:27]
