As John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath : And then the dispossessed were drawn west-from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out.
Japanâs NTT to Buy Dell Systems for $3.055 Billion. NTT Data Corp., a unit of Japanâs former telephone monopoly, agreed to buy Dell Inc.âs information-technology services businesses for $3.06 billion as it expands sales outside Japan. The acquisition would be by far NTT Dataâs largest, increasing access to the U.S. and other foreign markets to counter sluggish economic growth at home.
On September 2, 2010, HP won its bidding war for 3PAR with a $33 a share offer ($2.07 billion), which Dell declined to match. On October 6, 2014, Hewlett-Packard announced plans to split the PC and printers business from its enterprise products and services business. The split closed on November 1, 2015, and resulted in two publicly traded companies: HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.