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The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly referred to as HP, is a multinational information technology corporation. Its products include computers, printers, scanners, cameras, mobile phones and televisions. The company was founded in 1939 by Stanford University classmates Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in a garage in Palo Alto, California. One of their first customers was Walt Disney Studios, which bought HP equipment to test an innovative sound system for the movie ‘Fantasia’. The two men tossed a coin to decide the name of the company – Hewlett–Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Dave Packard won the toss but chose to put his friend’s name first. HP markets its products to individual consumers, small- to medium-sized businesses and office-supply retailers. It has over 300,000 staff worldwide and generates an annual revenue in excess of $100 billion.
戴维·帕卡德公司，通常人们称之为‘惠普’，惠普公司是一家跨国信息技术公司。该旗下所拥有的产品有电脑、打印机、扫描仪、照相机、电话以及电视。1939年，惠普由斯坦福学生比尔·休利特和戴维·帕卡德于1939年创建。该公司建在加利福尼亚州帕罗奥多市的一间汽车库中。他们的首位客户之一是迪斯尼工作室，购买他们的设备是为了要检验电影‘幻想曲’的独特生效系统。两人通过投掷硬币来决定企业的名称，是叫作休利特-帕卡德，还是叫作帕卡德·休伊特。戴维·帕卡德赢得了胜利，但是他还是选择把休利特的名字放在前面。惠普的产品主要针对个人用户、中小型企业以及办公用具零售商。惠普在全球拥有30万名员工，每年的收入超过了10亿美金。
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