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...Cook built up a reputation as an operations guru working at PC makers like IBM and Compaq....
...PC production ended when it was outsourced 15 years ago, after Hewlett-Packard merged with Compaq....
...The day Hewlett-Packard paid $25bn for Compaq in 2002 “hurt us more than any single event” as the market for desktop computers began to stagnate and PC makers cut costs....
...They included Carly Fiorina’s decision to become a consolidator in a fast-commoditising hardware industry with the $25bn for Compaq Computer, Mark Hurd’s $13.9bn purchase of IT services company EDS, and...
...Computer....
...- McLaren needs a 20-year-old Compaq laptop to maintain its F1 supercar. - Taliban not at all keen on McDonalds food: “Hahahaha, so you are asking me about McDonald’s food,” the TTP-JA fighter said....
...He has extensive international management experience, having held positions with high-calibre companies such as Oracle, Compaq and Hewlett Packard....
...Shortly after Hewlett-Packard took over rival Compaq in 2002, a senior manager from Compaq told his expanded team he wanted a weekly report from each of them....
...The 2001 acquisition of Compaq, the computer maker, was unwound six months ago, when Ms Whitman split HPE from HP Inc, the maker of printers and PCs....
...He had been an executive at Orange, ending up as the head of the French group’s European operations after 17 years in the IT industry at Hewlett-Packard and Compaq....
...It spun off their testing and measurement equipment company as Agilent in 1999, added Compaq to become a PC powerhouse in 2002 and now sheds that line of business today, with Meg Whitman leading a new HP...
...Silicon Valley wit Scott McNealy once described the union of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq as “two garbage trucks colliding”....
...But Grove remained firm and the rapid emergence of a new industry, led by Compaq Computer, provided a ready market....
...It is not just that, in HP’s $25bn purchase of Compaq Computer in 2002, she led the tech industry’s most bitterly fought takeover battle....
...reporters in recent months, Ms Fiorina has likened foreign policy intricacies, such as negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran, to the challenges of corporate dealmaking, such as sealing HP’s $25bn tie-up with Compaq...
...Exhibit A is personal computer maker Compaq, acquired just after the dotcom bubble burst....
...the Compaq deal (annual revenue $32bn)....
...HP/Compaq was mainly about cost cuts in personal computers, which became less valuable as the industry profit pool drained....
...By dividing the group up in this way, HP will end a controversial 13-year chapter in its history, which began when Carly Fiorina, then chief executive, agreed to buy Compaq Computer, one of the largest US...
...Here are some recent highlights: 1999: Carly Fiorina appointed chief executive. 2001: HP acquires Compaq Computer for $25bn, creating a company that is the world’s largest computer maker....
...The move would end a controversial 13-year chapter in HP’s history that began when Carly Fiorina, then chief executive, agreed to buy Compaq Computer, one of the largest US PC makers....
...By strange coincidence Ms Whitman is now in charge of Hewlett-Packard and undoing a much larger deal from the early 2000s, when HP bought Compaq Computer....
...The investment bankers could have judged that the relevant transactions (for example, Hewlett-Packard/Compaq, Lenovo/IBM, Acer/Gateway, HP/Palm) are inappropriate comparisons because those involved large...
...He quit to run the business PCs Limited, and soon realised that he could make the entire PC himself – and at cheaper prices than established giants such as IBM and Compaq....
...After making a proposal to Intel and beginning work, the quest widened to include other companies, including Microsoft, IBM, Compaq and DEC....
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