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• Hewlett-Packard, a computer and computer peripheral company
• Handley Page Aircraft Company
• Hello! Project (H!P), a Japanese pop recording project
• High Point, North Carolina
• High potency, a term used in dietary supplement marketing (vitamins, herbal preparations, etc) to mean "strong"
• Himachal Pradesh, a mountainous state in India
• Hindustan Petroleum, a petroleum refining company
• Hippocampus, a part of the brain
• Hire purchase, a method of making payments in instalments
• Hit point or health point, in various games
• Hold please, a common chat room abbreviation
• Homepage or Home page, a World Wide Web related term that has multiple meanings
• Horsepower (hp), a unit of power
• Houses of Parliament
• HP Foods Limited
  • HP Sauce, a famous brown sauce produced by HP Foods
• HP postcode area centered on Hemel Hempstead in the UK
• Ilford HP, a photographic film that has gone through several revisions i.e HP, HP2, HP3, HP4, HP5, and HP5 plus
• H. P. Baxxter, the frontman of the German Eurodance act Scooter, referred so in their lyrics
• H. P. Lovecraft, a science-fiction author
• he Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly known as HP, is the world's largest information technology corporation (by revenue) and is known worldwide for its printers, personal computers, and high-end servers.

  Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States, it has a global presence in the fields of computing, printing, and digital imaging, and also provides software and services. The company, which once catered primarily to engineering and medical markets—a line of business it spun off as Agilent Technologies in 1999—now markets to households and small business products such as printers, cameras and ink cartridges found in grocery and department stores.

  HP posted US $91.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006^[1] compared to US$91.4 billion for IBM, making it the world's largest technology vendor in terms of sales.

  HP is the No. 1 ranking company in worldwide personal computer shipments, surpassing rival Dell, market research firms Gartner and IDC reported in October 2006;^[2] the gap between HP and Dell widened substantially at the end of 2006, with HP taking a near 3.5% market share lead.

  The company released an outlook for FY07 of between $103 and $103.2 billion during its Q3 earnings results.^[3] This would make HP the world's first IT company to cross the $100 billion revenue mark.^[4]

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