HP's new PCFax protocol brings Carfax-style transparency to used laptops, logging repairs and usage to boost buyer trust and ...

Just as CarFax provides trustworthy reports on the history of used cars, HP hopes to build a new hardware-focused business ...

As the internet boom hit in the mid-to-late-1990s, HP sales surged, even edging out IBM in the top PC brands for market share by 1999, and by 2000, came in third behind Dell and Compaq.

The new name… is actually an old name. HP used the OmniBook name for laptops released between 1993 and 2002, but discontinued the brand after acquiring Compaq in 2002.

So HP decided to pull Compaq into its own computer line as a low-end "budget" brand. Of course, this was akin to a snake eating its tail as the Compaq line suffered quality issues caused by the ...

The affected batteries were shipped with specific HP, Compaq, HP ProBook, HP ENVY, Compaq Presario, and HP Pavilion Notebook Computers sold worldwide from March 2013 through October 2016, and/or ...

• HP is acquiring Compaq Computer in a stock swap valued around $25 billion, one of the largest deals in technology history. Compaq shareholders will receive 0.6325 shares of newly issued HP ...

In this review of the HP 14 laptop, Consumer Reports says this low-priced PC is a solid choice for when you just need a no-frills laptop.

To their surprise, the demand for the IBM PC took off fast. Six months later, we started to see the first IBM PC clones. The most notable one was from Compaq Computer.

After one of the harshest and closest proxy fights in American business history, Hewlett-Packard Co. officially closed its $19 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. on Friday.