Hewlett-Packard has had some bad quarters in its 73 years, but perhaps none as bad as its latest -- when it reported a loss of $8.9 billion on sales that fell 5% to $29.7 billion. The poor third-quarter results produced little drama on ...
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HP CEO Meg Whitman has reiterated the company’s commitment to its hardware business in a bid to reassure shareholders over the company’s future. During her keynote speech at HP’s annual Discover conference in Las Vegas ...
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Hewlett-Packard has no plans to launch a smartphone next year but will need to sell one eventually to avoid missing out on "a huge segment of the population," CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, clarifying remarks she made last month. Whitman ...
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Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it would take an $8 billion charge in its third fiscal quarter owing to weakness in its enterprise services division. The writedown is technically for "the impairment of goodwill" associated with HP's ...
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has again affirmed the company's commitment to its embattled Autonomy software division, saying that HP's fiscal health is stronger than some may believe. "There's been a lot of challenges, but a lot of ...
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The feud between Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and Hewlett-Packard’s leadership over alleged accounting fraud at the software vendor has intensified, with Lynch declaring his innocence in an open letter to the company’s board and ...
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HP CEO, Meg Whitman, has confirmed that the company will be returning to the smartphone market a year after its failed Pre 3 smartphone and webOS operating system were released. The firm is developing a new smartphone, Whitman confirmed ...
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HP has no plans to launch a smartphone next year but will need to sell one eventually to avoid missing out on “a huge segment of the population,” CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, clarifying remarks she made last month. Whitman ...
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HP's ElitePad 900 has a major flaw in the fact that its screen resolution isn't high enough to support Microsoft's Windows 8's 'Snap' feature. The 10-inch screen has a resolution of 1280 by 800 whereas most Windows 8 tablets have much ...
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HP is planning to "aggressively" seek recompense for alleged accounting fraud related to the acquisition of its Autonomy unit, which resulted in the vendor taking a non-cash impairment charge of US$8.8 billion. HP acquired Autonomy in ...
HP has appointed Mike Nefkens as Executive Vice President of HP Enterprise Services, it announced today. Nefkens, who has held the title of EMEA GM for HP Enterprise Services for the last three years, will now be responsible for driving ...
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Unless Hewlett-Packard gets its act together quickly, Lenovo will soon become the world's number one PC maker. If that happens, it's going to create a moment of national angst. Headlines would declare: Chinese firm becomes world's top ...
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Hewlett-Packard said in a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it had determined that its products were procured from a partner that was not informed that their ultimate destination was Syria. HP was responding to a ...
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HP CEO Meg Whitman has come forward to reassure customers that the future of its Autonomy product line is safe, a day after HP disclosed an alleged accounting scandal at the company it acquired last year. “We remain 100 percent ...
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While it continues to wrestle with an accounting scandal at its Autonomy business unit, Hewlett-Packard has revealed it may use some of Autonomy’s technology to offer a free online analytics service. The service would be based on ...
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