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As of 2012, Hewlett-Packard has made a total of 129 acquisitions since 1986. [a] [3] Its first acquisition was the F.L. Moseley Company in 1958. This move enabled HP to enter the plotter business, which was the predecessor to its printer business of today. [4] In 1989, HP purchased Apollo Computer for US$476 million, [5][6] enabling HP to ...
In March 2022, HP announced the acquisition of the California-headquartered communications software and hardware provider Poly Inc. in an all-cash transaction. HP said the cash amount agreed was $40 per share, which implied a total enterprise value of $3.3bn, inclusive Poly's net debts. [13]
Hewlett-Packard. The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard (/ ˈhjuːlɪt ˈpækərd / HYEW-lit PAK-ərd) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components, as well as software and related services ...
HP, as it was previously known before its hardware and software arms split in 2015, faced a lawsuit from investors in the aftermath of the Autonomy deal. “Obviously what we saw three weeks ago ...
Hewlett-Packard spying scandal. The media descended upon HP headquarters on September 22, 2006. On September 5, 2006, Newsweek revealed [1] that the general counsel of Hewlett-Packard, at the behest of HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn, had contracted a team of independent security experts to investigate board members and several journalists in order ...
Software company Wex Inc sued HP Inc for trademark infringement in Maine federal court on Thursday, accusing it of misusing the "Wex" name to brand competing HP software. Wex, which specializes in ...
Autonomy Corporation headquarters at Cambridge Business Park. HP Autonomy, previously Autonomy Corporation PLC, was an enterprise software company which was merged with Micro Focus in 2017 and OpenText in 2023 (OpenText had acquired the content management assets of Autonomy in 2016). It was founded in Cambridge, United Kingdom in 1996.
Peregrine Systems, Inc. was an enterprise software company, founded in 1981, that sold enterprise asset management, change management, and ITIL -based IT service management software. Following an accounting scandal and bankruptcy in 2003, Peregrine was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2005. [1] Micro Focus which merged with the HP Software ...