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| 12:00PM 9/23/2009
In August 2008, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) bought Ross Perot's first company, Electronic Data Services, or EDS, in a deal worth $13.9 billion. It then proceeded to slash thousands of jobs. Now that deal is paying off in spades for HP. On Monday, Dell (DELL) announced that it would pay $3.9 billion for...