Hewlett-Packard Co., the fabled Silicon Valley computer maker, announced last night that it will purchase rival Compaq Computer Corp. for $25 billion in stock, as the two companies struggle to survive ...

On Monday, the Houston-based company will effectively retire its Deskpro, Armada and Professional Workstation brands to create a new line called Evo. "Evo is for evolution, as computing evolves away ...

Margaret Warner discusses the proposed multi-billion dollar merger between Compaq and Hewlett-Packard with Computer World editor Mary Fran Johnson. Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer have been fierce ...

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 ...

Sometime this quarter, Dell Computer will likely surpass Compaq Computer as the world's largest computer company, according to a recent study. Round Rock, Texas-based Dell is expected to ship ...

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 ...

Compaq Computer may soon offer PC buyers a tempting option: two for the price of one. Hoping to corral buyers who can't decide whether to buy a notebook or desktop PC, the Houston-based computer maker ...

Oracle plans to license technology from Compaq Computer that will help the software company improve key features in its upcoming next-generation database. Oracle will tap Compaq's "clustering" ...

In 1981, engineer Rod Canion left Texas Instruments and co-founded Compaq, which created the first IBM-compatible personal computer. This opened the door to an entire industry of PCs that could run ...

Compaq Computer Corp. and the U.S. Marshals Service have seized a large quantity of what they say are counterfeit computer components from reseller Hardware 4 Less Inc. In a statement issued yesterday ...