...name was determined by the gracious winner of a coin toss. Even though Packard won the toss, he apparently liked the way "Hewlett-Packard" sounded, so they went with that. He never had reason to regret the choice. Hewlett-Packard's rise as a tech powerhouse...
...in philanthropic and community events. The company's goal is to inspire involvement by as many as 40,000 retirees. Hewlett-Packard said participation was the reward. "It's about being part of the HP community and its rich heritage," Mendenhall said. "That's...
...EDS. Not that he would ever be so wasteful. In his three years on the job, Hurd has been an exemplary steward of Hewlett-Packard's capital. He is credited with improving the company's profitability not just by resorting to Plan A - firing people - but by...
...markets, it said on Tuesday, expecting the world's poorest continent to rival India for IT outsourcing within a decade. Hewlett-Packard Africa managing director Rainer Koch told Reuters its sales on the continent -- which the International Monetary Fund said...
...as he proposes to spend $14 billion to acquire Electronic Data Systems, an underperforming technology services provider. Hewlett-Packard hopes the deal, which it officially announced Tuesday, will give the company the scale it needs to compete more directly...
...and printing products and technology solutions. The company has a strong market position in most of its product segments. Hewlett-Packard wrested market leadership from Dell in the global PC market in the third quarter of 2006 and managed to sustain it in...
...and its rich heritage," said Mendenhall. "That's what they get." Their involvement can be bittersweet, say some of Hewlett-Packard retirees. The oldest among them â now into their 90s â are the last of the generation that helped build Silicon Valley, watching...
... A Polish security researcher calling himself porkythepig is apparently gunning hard for HP this month, first exposing a slew of vulnerabilities that affected 83 different HP and Compaq models ten days ago, and today releasing an exploit that allows an att...
...industry analysts, has seen its stock price drop 20%. The S&P 500 has risen 28% and IBM 42%. Meanwhile, the once-maligned Hewlett-Packard has seen its stock price soar 163%! So much for a lousy merger. Where did the pundits go wrong? Well, first of all, they're...
...Hewlett-Packard was buying a business that would be a fundamental boon, and asked how easily EDS could be subsumed. Hewlett-Packard's rationale for buying EDS was to become more competitive in the services business, which provides technical and infrastructure...