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...Cook built up a reputation as an operations guru working at PC makers like IBM and Compaq....
...His first triumph was drawing up Apple’s manufacturing operations in China after Jobs lured him to Cupertino, from PC-maker Compaq, in 1998....
...Musk’s first start-up, Zip2, an online directory of local businesses, had just been sold to Compaq for more than $300mn....
...By the time Cook was lured to run worldwide operations in 1998, the likes of HP and Compaq were well established there. But Apple took advantage of the opportunities in unique ways....
...They pursued business combinations (Compaq, EDS, Autonomy) and in some cases cost-cutting or divestitures that added no new value to the company....
...PC production ended when it was outsourced 15 years ago, after Hewlett-Packard merged with Compaq....
...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...
...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....
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...Outsiders have caused a stormy new century in HP’s history — Carly Fiorina presided over the controversial purchase of rival PC maker Compaq in 2001; Mark Hurd left over an expenses row in 2010; Mr Apotheker...
...HP’s gamble on Compaq ultimately failed — the diversified IT company has been engaged in a progressive break-up over the past year....
...The CEOs Twenty years ago, the chief executives of Apple and Adidas were both working for the same company: Compaq. Tim Cook, left, quit the laptop maker after just six months to join Apple in 1998....
...The deals included Carly Fiorina’s controversial purchase of PC maker Compaq, which led to a public feud with the company’s founding families; Mark Hurd’s acquisitions of IT services company EDS, the Palm...
...- 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....
...He did stints at Oracle and Compaq and became Hewlett-Packard’s managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, before being let go by then chief executive Carly Fiorina....
...Some HP insiders argue that buying Compaq turned out to be the company’s salvation....
...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...
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