HP says it will buy EDS for about $12.6 billion

May 13, 2008 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to buy Electronic Data Systems Corp. for about $12.6 billion to build a technology-services company that could challenge IBM.

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