HP's newest bid, at $27 per share, represents a total offer for 3PAR of $1.8 billion, or about 11 percent greater than Dell's earlier offer. 3PAR is a Fremont, Calif.-based developer of enterprise ...

Icahn and Blackstone put in preliminary bids late last week, potentially upsetting the plans of the No. 3 PC maker's founder, Michael Dell, and private equity firm Silver Lake to take Dell private.