During the 1990s, you couldn't walk into a Circuit City, Best Buy, CompUSA, or any other electronics retailer without seeing Compaq computers on the shelves.

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Hewlett-Packard is buying Compaq Computer for $25 billion, a pairing that brings together two of the largest makers of personal computers. The move comes at a time of deep retrenchment in the computer ...

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP) and Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) announced today a definitive merger agreement to create an $87 billion global technology leader. The new HP will offer ...

Compaq Computer on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against three individuals and a South Carolina company for allegedly defrauding it of more than $20 million. Compaq is suing Harry Martin and ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Tuesday several products developed by the former Compaq Computer Corp., whose acquisition by HP was finalized May 7. New versions of the AlphaServer family were announced ...

PALO ALTO, CA and HOUSTON, TX – Hewlett-Packard Company and Compaq Computer Corporation announced a merger agreement to create an $87 billion global technology leader. The new HP will offer the ...

PC shoppers are often advised, “Buy one step down from the top” — hitting the price/performance sweet spot with Intel or AMD’s second fastest CPU, or the second biggest hard disk available. But even ...

If the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission approve the planned merger between Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp.—and that’s a big if, since the EC squashed the planned ...

ST. LOUIS (CN) - St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance has a duty to defend Compaq computers in a class action accusing the company of selling computers with defective floppy diskette controllers, the ...