Now Lenovo Soars in the Business Customer Sales If you ask a random person on the street, "Who makes ThinkPads?", they will probably say IBM, but the truth is that Lenovo is the mighty company responsible for transforming ThinkPads and IdeaPads into some of the best PCs on the market. Several years after buying the IBM PC business, Lenovo is now the number two PC maker in the world. How did they do it? Six years after the Chinese PC vendor Lenovo Group Ltd. acquired the PC business from IBM, it is now the number two PC vendor in the world, behind only HP. It took a while to get there, but the company did it by using a different tactic than one-time insurgent Acer. For the fourth quarter of 2011, Gartner puts Lenovo in second place, with 14 percent of the worldwide PC market and 23 percent year-over-year growth. HP remains in the lead with 16 percent market share, but its sales fell 16.2 percent, undoubtedly due to residual problems from its ill-advised threat...