SAN JOSE, California-- High-tech giant Hewlett-Packard Co. is buying rival Compaq Computer Corp. for about $25 billion in a blockbuster merger that should shake up the struggling computer industry.

Compaq is planning a massive restructuring that will see it emphasize sales of industry-specific packages of computers, software and services over computer hardware, The Wall Street Journal reported ...

Hewlett-Packard would have seen its revenue nearly double in fiscal 2001 had the company already closed its merger with Compaq Computer, but its earnings would have declined, according to documents ...

Shareholders of Hewlett-Packard Co. and takeover target Compaq Computer Corp. are so displeased with the planned acquisition that they might take the extreme step of rejecting the deal, investors and ...

HOUSTON – Huddled over a paper place mat at a Houston pie restaurant, three Texas Instruments workers sketched the design of what would become a 27-pound portable computer intended to run software for ...

Compaq Computer edges ahead of rivals in the 2001 high-performance computing market, garnering 23 percent of a $5.1 billion market. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Compaq Computer edged ahead of rivals in the 2001 high-performance computing market, garnering 23 percent of a $5.1 billion market for computers used to understand problems such as nuclear explosions, ...

January 1982 Former Texas Instruments manager Rod Canion comes up with the idea of a portable computer that runs all the programs that operate on the IBM PC without any modification. Canion, Jim ...

Hewlett-Packard would have seen its revenue nearly double in fiscal 2001 had the company already closed its merger with Compaq Computer. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...