HP-Palm Merger

Case Code: BSTR383
Case Length: 27 Pages
Period: 2009-2010
Pub Date: 2011
Teaching Note: Not Available

Price: Rs.500
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Palm, Inc.
Industry: Information Technology, Electronics
Countries: Global; US
Themes: Strategic Options , Mergers and Acquisitions

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Background Note

HP
HP, the world's second largest technology company , was founded by William Hewlett (William) and Dave Packard (Dave) on January 1, 1939, in Palo Alto, California, USA, under the mentorship of Fred Terman, their professor at Stanford University...

Palm Inc.
Palm Computing Inc. (Palm Computing) was founded in January 1992 by Jeff Hawkins (Hawkins) aided by Donna Dubinsky (Dubinsky). Merill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre (MPAE), a venture capital firm owned by Bruce Dunlevie (Dunlevie), agreed to invest in Hawkins's ideas...

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