Secluded behind the security-coded doors of Compaq Computer Corp.’s design studio, Randall Martin opens what appears to be a typical black laptop, snaps out the keyboard and mouse, and adjusts ...

Compaq Computer Corp. reported Monday that its operating profit fell 21% in the first quarter, as it faced a slowdown in PC sales and aggressive pricing by its rivals that saw Compaq lose its top ...

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 ...

HOUSTON — Eckhard Pfeiffer spent his first full week as chief executive officer huddled in lengthy strategy and organizational sessions with his top lieutenants at Compaq Computer Corp. And the ...

Hewlett-Packard plans to buy Compaq Computer in a stock swap worth about $25 billion, creating a technology company second in revenue only to IBM. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News ...

Compaq blew the lid off the PC compatibles market with the release of the DeskPro 386, the first computer in the world to use the then-supercharged Intel 386 CPU.

Hewlett-Packard will announce today that it is acquiring Compaq Computer for $25 billion in stock in a bold move to grow as the computer business struggles with shrinking sales, executives close ...

Compaq Computer Corp. has settled a lawsuit with a Woodlands start-up company headed by what has been called "the Server Mafia." In February, the No. 1 computer maker filed the lawsuit in state ...

HOUSTON -- Compaq Computer Corp. says it is owed $94 million as a result of a dispute with computer distributor Inacom Corp., which filed for bankruptcy-court protection from creditors last week ...

It took Compaq Computer, founded in 1982, only four years to go from start-up to Fortune 500 status and only 12 years to become the world's leader in personal-computer sales. But in the PC ...