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Before joining HP she worked at AT&T and Lucent TechnologiesIn 1996, AT&T spun off its Systems and Technology units, along with the famous Bell Laboratories, to form a new company named Lucent Technologies . One of the primary reasons for the spinoff was to allow AT&T's equipment manufacturing business to profit f. She led HP's merger with CompaqCompaq Computer Corporation was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three senior managers from semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments. Each invested $1,000 to form the company. Their first venture capital came from Ben; she was listed by Fortune (magazine)The magazine Fortune was founded by Time Magazine co-founder Henry Luce in 1930 at the outset of the Great Depression. It was considered America's first business journal. Fortune is now part of the media conglomerate Time Warner. Fortune publishes three i as the most powerful woman in business for six years in a row until 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, when Meg WhitmanMargaret C. Whitman also known as Meg Whitman ( August 4, 1956 ) has been the President and CEO of the online auction company eBay since March 1998. She is known as one of the most influential and successful American businesswomen of her time. She grew up was voted most powerful woman.