HP, a Silicon Valley Icon, Is Ready for Break-Up

One of the nation's most storied tech companies will split in two this weekend — another casualty of seismic shifts in the way people use technology and big-company sluggishness in responding. Hewlett-Packard was an early pioneer of what became the model for Silicon Valley startups: Founded in 1939 by two Stanford graduates in a Palo Alto, California garage, HP was long celebrated for its engineering know-how and laid-back corporate culture. It made hefty profits as it grew into a...

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