List of acquisitions by Hewlett-Packard
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Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
, commonly referred to as HP, is an information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
corporation based in Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is...
. The company was founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a small garage on January 1, 1939. As of 2010, HP is the largest technology company in the world in terms of revenue, currently ranking 26 in the Fortune Global 500
Fortune Global 500
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As of 2008, Hewlett-Packard has made a total of 116 acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with the buying, selling, dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin, or a new field or...
since 1986. Its first acquisition was the F.L. Moseley Company in 1958. This move enabled HP to enter the plotter
Plotter
A plotter is a computer printing device for printing vector graphics. In the past, plotters were widely used in applications such as computer-aided design, though they have generally been replaced with wide-format conventional printers...
business, which was the predecessor to its printer business today. In 1989, HP purchased Apollo Computer
Apollo Computer
Apollo Computer, Inc., founded 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s...
for US$476 million, enabling HP to become the largest supplier of computer workstations. In 1995, the company bought another computer manufacturer Convex Computer
Convex Computer
Convex Computer Corporation was a company that developed, manufactured and marketed vector minisupercomputers and supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Their later Exemplar series of parallel computing machines were based on the Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC microprocessors, and in 1995,...
for US$150 million. In 2000, HP spun off its measurement, chemical and medical businesses into an independent company named Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies , or Agilent, is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation...
. The company's largest acquisition came in 2002, when it merged with Compaq
Compaq
Compaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard....
, a personal computer
Personal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
manufacturer, for US$25 billion. The combined company overtook Dell
Dell
Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest...
for the largest share of the personal computer market worldwide in the second quarter.
Since then, stream of acquisitions strengthened HP position in the software business. The largest software company purchased during this time was Mercury Interactive
Mercury Interactive
Mercury is now part of Hewlett-Packard. The combination of Mercury Interactive and HP OpenView formed HP Software Division, a global business unit within HP Enterprise Business...
for US$4.5 billion. This acquisition doubled the size of HP’s software business by US$2 billion in annual revenue. The majority of companies acquired by HP are based in the United States.
Acquisitions
Each acquisition was for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified. The agreement date listed is the date of the agreement between HP and the subject of the acquisition, while the acquisition date listed is the exact date in which the acquisition completes. The value of each acquisition is usually the one listed at the time of the announcement. If the value of an acquisition is not listed, then it is undisclosed.| Agreement date | Acquisition date | Company | Business | Country | Value (US$ United States dollar The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies.... ) |
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| — | F.L. Moseley Company | Plotter Plotter A plotter is a computer printing device for printing vector graphics. In the past, plotters were widely used in applications such as computer-aided design, though they have generally been replaced with wide-format conventional printers... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Boonton Radio | Flight test instrumentation Flight test instrumentation Flight test instrumentation is monitoring and recording equipment fitted to aircraft during flight test. It is mainly used on experimental aircraft, prototype aircraft and development aircraft - both military and civil, and can monitor various parameters from the temperatures of specific... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Sanborn Company | Medical equipment Medical equipment Medical equipment is designed to aid in the diagnosis, monitoring or treatment of medical conditions.-Types:There are several basic types:* Diagnostic equipment includes medical imaging machines, used to aid in diagnosis... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | F&M Scientific Corporation | Analytical chemistry Analytical chemistry Analytical chemistry is the study of the separation, identification, and quantification of the chemical components of natural and artificial materials. Qualitative analysis gives an indication of the identity of the chemical species in the sample and quantitative analysis determines the amount of... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Data Systems, Inc | Information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Eon Systems Inc. | Electronics Electronics Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| Apollo Computer Apollo Computer Apollo Computer, Inc., founded 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s... |
Computer manufacturer Computer A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Certain assets of Optotech Inc. | Disk drive | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Applied Optoelectronic Tech | Automatic test equipment Automatic test equipment Automatic or Automated Test Equipment is any apparatus that performs tests on a device, known as the Device Under Test , using automation to quickly perform measurements and evaluate the test results... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Avantek | Transistor Transistor A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals and power. It is composed of a semiconductor material with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor's terminals changes the current... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | ABB CADE | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Colorado Memory Systems | Magnetic tape Magnetic tape Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic. It was developed in Germany, based on magnetic wire recording. Devices that record and play back audio and video using magnetic tape are tape recorders and video tape recorders... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | French and German units of Leasametric | Company leasing Leasing Leasing is a process by which a firm can obtain the use of a certain fixed assets for which it must pay a series of contractual, periodic, tax deductible payments.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Computer systems from Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology... |
Computer systems | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Four Pi Systems Corp. | Automatic test equipment Automatic test equipment Automatic or Automated Test Equipment is any apparatus that performs tests on a device, known as the Device Under Test , using automation to quickly perform measurements and evaluate the test results... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Metrix Network Systems | Computer networking | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | BT&D Technologies | Electronics Electronics Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| EEsof Inc. | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
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| Versatest | Automatic test equipment Automatic test equipment Automatic or Automated Test Equipment is any apparatus that performs tests on a device, known as the Device Under Test , using automation to quickly perform measurements and evaluate the test results... |
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| — | CaLan Inc. | Automatic test equipment Automatic test equipment Automatic or Automated Test Equipment is any apparatus that performs tests on a device, known as the Device Under Test , using automation to quickly perform measurements and evaluate the test results... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| Convex Computer Convex Computer Convex Computer Corporation was a company that developed, manufactured and marketed vector minisupercomputers and supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Their later Exemplar series of parallel computing machines were based on the Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC microprocessors, and in 1995,... |
Computer manufacturer Computer A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | ElseWare Corp. | Computer programming Computer programming Computer programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a program that performs specific operations or exhibits a... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| SecureWare Internet security division | Computer security Computer security Computer security is a branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Graphics technology from Parametric Technology Corporation Parametric Technology Corporation Parametric Technology Corporation is a U.S.-based company that develops, markets and supports software for product development. Its main products are for CAD/CAM, engineering calculations, and product lifecycle management. Its customers include companies in manufacturing, publishing, services,... |
Graphics hardware Graphics hardware Graphics hardware is a hardware that enable to produce and show computer graphics. It works in conjuntion with graphics software. Examples of graphics hardware are display devices, graphics cards and motion capture hardware.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Division Inc. | Computer programming Computer programming Computer programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a program that performs specific operations or exhibits a... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | DP-Tek Development | Imaging Imaging Imaging is the representation or reproduction of an object's outward form; especially a visual representation .- Imaging methodologies and technologies :... |
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| — | Trellis Software & Controls | Motion control Motion control Motion control is a sub-field of automation, in which the position or velocity of machines are controlled using some type of device such as a hydraulic pump, linear actuator, or an electric motor, generally a servo... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Vital Technology Pte Ltd | Investment Investment Investment has different meanings in finance and economics. Finance investment is putting money into something with the expectation of gain, that upon thorough analysis, has a high degree of security for the principal amount, as well as security of return, within an expected period of time... |
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| VeriFone VeriFone VeriFone is a company that makes point-of-sale equipment. It was founded and incorporated in Hawaii in 1981, and named itself after its first product, the name standing for Verification telephone.... |
Electronic bill payment Electronic bill payment Electronic bill payment is a feature of online banking, similar in its effect to a giro, allowing a depositor to send money from their demand account to a creditor or vendor such as a public utility or a department store to be credited against a specific account... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$1.18 billion | |||
| — | PROLIN | Information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... |
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| — | Internet printing technology from ForeFront Group | Printing | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Nuview ManageX from Nuview Inc. | Business process management Business process management Business process management is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It promotes business effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with technology. BPM attempts to... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Optimazation Systems | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Business related assets of Siltek | Information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans... |
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| — | Heartstream | Medical equipment Medical equipment Medical equipment is designed to aid in the diagnosis, monitoring or treatment of medical conditions.-Types:There are several basic types:* Diagnostic equipment includes medical imaging machines, used to aid in diagnosis... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Computing & Measurement Systems | Computer Computer A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem... s |
Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
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| — | Scope Communications Inc. | Cable tester Cable tester A cable tester is an electronic device used to verify the electrical connections in a cable or other wired assembly. Generally a cable tester consists of:# A source of electric current,# A volt meter,... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Open Skies, Inc. | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Telegra Corp | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Transoft Networks | Storage area network Storage area network A storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Dazel Corporation | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Security Force Software | Computer security Computer security Computer security is a branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Qosnetics | Information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
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| — | Bluestone Software | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$470 million | ||
| Comdisco Inc. | Information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Trinagy Inc. | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
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| — | StorageApps | Data storage | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$350 million | ||
| Indigo N.V Indigo Digital Press Indigo is a series of digital offset printing presses manufactured by the Hewlett-Packard company in Ness Ziona, Israel.HP Indigo presses are used for general commercial printing, direct mail, photo, publications, labels, flexible packaging, folding cartons and specialty printing... |
Printing service | Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
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| Compaq Compaq Compaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard.... |
Personal computer Personal computer A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Procter & Gamble Procter & Gamble Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods.... IT |
Information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Ericsson Ericsson Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks... IT |
Information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... |
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| — | PipeBeach | Communication software Communication software Communication software is used to provide remote access to systems and exchange files and messages in text, audio and/or video formats between different computers or user IDs... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Extreme Logic Inc. | Information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
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| — | Talking Blocks | Web service Web service A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | SelectAccess assets of Baltimore Technologies | Computer security Computer security Computer security is a branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to... |
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
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| — | Persist Technology | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
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| — | Consera Software | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
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| — | Triaton Gmbh | Information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
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| — | TruLogica | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
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| — | Novadigm Inc. | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
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| — | IT Infrastructure Management LLC (doing business as ManageOne) |
Information technology consulting Information technology consulting Information technology consulting is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives... |
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| — | CEC Europe Service Management | Information technology consulting Information technology consulting Information technology consulting is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives... |
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
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| — | Networking technology from Riverstone Networks Riverstone Networks Riverstone Networks, was a provider of networking switching hardware based in Santa Clara, California. Originally part of Cabletron Systems, and based on an early acquisition of YAGO, it was one of the many Gigabit Ethernet startups in the mid-1990s... |
Computer networking | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Synstar | Information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
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| — | IT division of West LB AG | Information technology Information technology Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications... |
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
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| — | Snapfish Snapfish Snapfish is a web-based photo sharing and photo printing service that is owned by Hewlett-Packard. Members can upload files for free, and are given unlimited photo storage.- History :... |
Photo sharing Photo sharing Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others . This function is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | CGNZ | Information technology consulting Information technology consulting Information technology consulting is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives... |
New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga... |
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| — | AppIQ | Data storage | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | RLX Technologies | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
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| — | Scitex Vision Scitex Vision Scitex Vision, was part of Scitex Corporation Ltd. It was an Israel-based company that specialized in producing equipment for large- and very-large-format printing on both paper and specialty materials... |
Printing service | Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
$230 million | ||
| — | Trustgenix Inc. | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
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| — | PIXACO | Online photo services Photo sharing Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others . This function is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images... |
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
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| — | Peregrine Systems Peregrine Systems Peregrine Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company, was founded in 1981 and 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... |
Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$425 million | ||
| — | OuterBay | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Silverwire | Imaging Imaging Imaging is the representation or reproduction of an object's outward form; especially a visual representation .- Imaging methodologies and technologies :... |
Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... |
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| — | The Technology Partners | Information technology consulting Information technology consulting Information technology consulting is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives... |
Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... |
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| VoodooPC VoodooPC Voodoo Computers Inc. or VoodooPC was a luxury personal computer brand owned by Hewlett Packard. Voodoo was originally started as a niche PC maker in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1991, and in September of 2006 Hewlett Packard announced they would acquire Voodoo. Voodoo specialized... |
Computer manufacturer Computer A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem... |
Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
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| Mercury Interactive Mercury Interactive Mercury is now part of Hewlett-Packard. The combination of Mercury Interactive and HP OpenView formed HP Software Division, a global business unit within HP Enterprise Business... |
Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
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| — | Knightsbridge Solutions | Information management Information management Information management is the collection and management of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences. This sometimes involves those who have a stake in, or a right to that information... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Bitfone Corp. | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Bristol Technology Bristol Technology Inc. Bristol Technology Inc. was a software development company founded in January 1991 by Keith, Ken, and Jean Blackwell. The company's original product idea, Wind/U, was an implementation of the Windows API on non-Windows operating systems... |
Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Polyserve | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Tabblo Inc. | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Arteis | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | SPI Dynamic Inc. | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Opsware Opsware Opsware, Inc. was a software company based in Sunnyvale, California that offered products for server and network device provisioning, configuration, and management targeted toward enterprise customers... |
Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Neoware Neoware Neoware was a company that manufactured and marketed a type of computer hardware called thin clients.It also developed and marketed enterprise software, thin client appliances, and related services aimed at reducing the TCO of IT infrastructure.... |
Thin client Thin client A thin client is a computer or a computer program which depends heavily on some other computer to fulfill its traditional computational roles. This stands in contrast to the traditional fat client, a computer designed to take on these roles by itself... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$214 million | ||
| — | MacDermid ColorSpan Inc. | Printer manufacturer | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Atos Origin Atos Origin Atos S.A. is an international information technology corporation which operates in 42 countries worldwide, with over 78,500 employees... Middle East Group |
Information technology consulting Information technology consulting Information technology consulting is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives... |
Bahrain Bahrain ' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is... |
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| EYP Mission Critical Facilities Inc. | Information technology consulting Information technology consulting Information technology consulting is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | NUR Macroprinters Ltd | Printer | Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
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| Exstream Software Exstream Software Exstream Software is a document management company based in Lexington, Kentucky founded by Davis Marksbury and Dan Kloiber in 1998.The company's primary product is the Diaglogue software package, which its customers use to generate and print mailings for their clients.In March 2008 it was acquired... |
Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$371 million | |||
| — | TOWER Software TOWER Software TOWER Software was a software development company, founded in 1985 in Canberra, Australia. The company provided and supported enterprise content management software, notably its TRIM product line for electronics records management.... |
Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
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| — | Colubris Networks | Wireless network Wireless network Wireless network refers to any type of computer network that is not connected by cables of any kind. It is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and enterprise installations avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building, or as a connection between various equipment... ing |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| — | Electronic Data Systems Electronic Data Systems HP Enterprise Services is the global business and technology services division of Hewlett Packard's HP Enterprise Business strategic business unit. It was formed by the combination of HP's legacy services consulting and outsourcing business and the integration of acquired Electronic Data Systems,... |
Information technology consulting Information technology consulting Information technology consulting is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$13.9 billion | ||
| — | LeftHand Networks Inc. | Data storage | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$360 million | ||
| IBRIX, Inc. | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| 3Com 3Com 3Com was a pioneering digital electronics manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney, Bruce Borden, and Greg Shaw... |
Computer networking | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$2.7 billion | |||
| — | Melodeo | Computer software Computer software Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$30 million | ||
| Palm, Inc. Palm, Inc. Palm, Inc., was a smartphone manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that was responsible for products such as the Pre and Pixi as well as the Treo and Centro smartphones. Previous product lines include the PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm VII, Zire and Tungsten. While their older... |
Smartphone Smartphone A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera... Manufacturer |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$1.2 billion | |||
| Stratavia Stratavia Stratavia, formerly known as ExtraQuest, was a software company that specialized in enterprise Database and Data Center Automation, and private cloud computing enablement... |
Computer Software | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| 3PAR 3PAR 3PAR Inc. is a manufacturer of systems and software for data storage and information management headquartered in Fremont, California, USA. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard. 3PAR produces a range of enterprise storage products, including hardware disk arrays and storage management... |
Data Storage | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$2.35 billion | |||
| Fortify Software Fortify Software Fortify Software is a San Mateo, California-based software vendor. The company was founded in 2003 and provides products that identify and remove security vulnerabilities from software applications. Its initial funding was provided by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. In September, 2010, the... |
Computer Software Security management Security Management is a broad field of management related to asset management, physical security and human resource safety functions. It entails the identification of an organization's information assets and the development, documentation and implementation of policies, standards, procedures and... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| ArcSight ArcSight ArcSight, an HP company, was founded in 2000 and is a technology company that provides security information and event management solutions. ArcSight headquarters are located in Cupertino, California, USA, with sales offices around the globe including the United States, the United Kingdom, France,... |
Corporate Computer Security management Security management Security Management is a broad field of management related to asset management, physical security and human resource safety functions. It entails the identification of an organization's information assets and the development, documentation and implementation of policies, standards, procedures and... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
$1.5 billion | |||
| Autonomy Autonomy Corporation Autonomy is a multinational enterprise software company with joint headquarters in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and San Francisco, USA and a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard. The company uses a combination of technologies born out of research at the University of Cambridge... |
Information Management Information management Information management is the collection and management of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences. This sometimes involves those who have a stake in, or a right to that information... |
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
$11 billion |