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Fortune
Stuart Dyos

A Hewlett Packard exec sent a dramatic ‘KILL MIST’ email during its aggressive campaign to crush a rival. Now HP wants to buy it for $14 billion

Hewlett Packard's logo (Credit: Igor Golovniov—SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)
  • The U.S. Department of Justice is suing to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of Juniper, one of the company’s competitors in wireless network communications. 

If you can’t beat them, buy them—at least that's what Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) allegedly thought it could do with a rival that surpassed them in artificial intelligence innovation. 

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