Hewlett-Packard Co. is paying $4.5 billion to buy Mercury Interactive Corp., a maker of business management software that has been entangled in a stock options scandal for the last nine months. The ...

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday announced the completion of its merger with management software company Mercury Interactive, setting the stage for a revamped HP Software suite and renewed competition with ...

Mercury will become part of HP Software, pushing that group's revenue past $2 billion annually, according to HP. "[This deal] enables us to be an end-to-end leader in enterprise IT management, ...

At $4.5bn (£2.29bn), HP's takeover of Mercury Interactive earlier this year was not only the biggest software acquisition in HP's history but "the biggest software acquisition for the entire industry" ...