Born in a warehouse in Hunters Point, Oqo http://www.oqo.com/ (pronounced O-Q-O) is the brainchild of a team of former Apple and IBM engineers who set out to create a new genre of ultra-small, fully functional, go-anywhere PCs.
That was in 2000. Eight years and a few false starts later, Oqo has matured into a firm with 100-plus employees, more than $20 million in sales and one huge challenge: to defend its niche against computer giants like Hewlett-Packard, Acer and the Taiwanese firm Asus that have either launched or are poised to launch their own ultra-portable PCs.
Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer
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