Hewlett-Packard buys Switzerland's Silverwire

Hewlett-Packard Co. bought Silverware Holding AG, a Swiss digital photography company for an undisclosed price.
Palo Alto-based H-P (NYSE: HPQ) is a printer and computer company with 150,000 employees. Silverware is based in Zug, Switzerland. It is a commercial digital photography company which operates kiosks in 30 countries. It also sells software that connects the photographic and printing equipment in a retail photo store.

H-P has been making moves into the digital photography market for several years. In March 2005 it bought Snapfish, an online photo company in San Francisco.
The Silverware deal should close by the end of September. Silverware will become part of H-P's imaging and printing business.