Time elapsed between the founding of Palm Computing and when HP closed up shop? 18 years.

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From complex accounting systems to the stuff that tracks employee performance, compensation and inventories, he'll bring it all together and run it for customers in his data centers, saving them the headache and upfront cost of buying hardware from Ellison's shop, HP, Dell or IBM.

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Cook, who has a prior history of arrests for thefts and burglary, was identified when an HP laptop stolen from one of the hotel rooms was found in a local pawn shop, where staff helped police to identify him.

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They are a fraction of TCS's 215, 000-strong workforce but represent the bridgehead of its ambitions to go beyond being merely an outsourced back-office and coding shop and take on such consultancy giants as IBM, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Accenture on their home turf.

ECONOMIST: TCS in America