Accelerating its drive to become a leader in corporate computing, Compaq Computer Corp. said it is taking over Digital Equipment Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $9.6 billion. The purchase ...

THE world's biggest PC maker, Compaq, has just climbed into another league. On January 26th, in the computer industry's largest-ever deal, the Texan firm announced that it is buying the ailing Digital ...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 1998, Compaq acquired Digital Equipment in the largest buyout in the ...

Hans W. Gutsch, the controversial senior vice president of human resources at Compaq Computer Corp., resigned from the company Wednesday, telling board Chairman Benjamin Rosen that he no longer wanted ...

Compaq chops: Compaq Computer Corp., the world’s top personal computer maker, will fire 5,000 workers and consolidate manufacturing in the first round of cuts designed to meld its businesses with ...

Silicon Valley pioneers. A one-car garage in Palo Alto. The HP Way. These are the images and phrases most often used to describe Hewlett- Packard, and they have been drilled into the heads of anyone ...

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 ...

Compaq Computer, the world's second-largest computer maker, today announced record fourth-quarter revenues and earnings that blew past Wall Street expectations, but many analysts voiced concern that ...

Hamburg/Wien - Offiziell sprechen die Computerunternehmen Hewlett-Packard (HP) und Compaq von einer gleichberechtigten Fusion. Doch alle Details des Megadeals legen den Schluss nahe, dass HP den ...