The Hewlett-Packard Company
is the largest (by revenue) information technology company in the world,
just ahead of IBM.
The company provides a range of computer hardware (including computers, servers
and printers), software, and services.
The company was originally founded in
1939,
and once primarily catered to medical and engineering markets, but span that part of
its business off as Agilent Technologies in
1999.
Hewlett-Packard is headquartered in
Palo Alto,
California.
Hewlett-Packard is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker HPQ.
The company employs approximately 156,000 people
as of 2007.
The company had revenues
of US $91.7 billion, and net income of over US $6.2 billion
as of 2006.
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