And then, as if to prove that this was just the beginning, Compaq announced that it would buy Digital Equipment, a company with nearly twice as many employees, for an industry record of $9 billion, at a stroke reshaping the computer world.
In the decade after the laboratory's founding, its researchers made a series of advances that would ultimately reshape the modern computer industry.
DealBook » How One Man Redefined the Digital Age | Steve Jobs changed the way technology and media are experienced, reshaping the personal computer industry, The New York Times writes.
Jobs, with incisive assistance from his design team, reshaped the personal computer from a wobbly, Professor Branestawm-like contraption lashed together at the back of a garage, or from an early Moog synthesiser lookalike, into a kind of digital jewellery.
And this year, Mr. Jobs shook things up again, with the introduction of the iPad, a tablet computer that has the potential to create a new category of computers and once again reshape the way people interact with their devices.
She quickly abandoned The Hewlett Way, moving aggressively to reshape the company as a prominent marketer of computer equipment and enterprise systems.
If Cendant does acquire Worldspan, it would reshape the electronic travel-distribution industry by creating a rival to Sabre Holdings, the world's largest computer-reservation system for the travel industry.
Haslam moved quickly to reshape the franchise.
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