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The HP Way: Shareholders get dividends, employees get pink slips

Posted May 23, 2012 - 1:28 pm

Hewlett-Packard is expected on Wednesday to announce the layoff of up to 30,000 workers, even as it continues to pay out regular dividends on 2 billion shares of common stock.
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HP's merging of PC, printer divisions a prelude to layoffs

Posted March 21, 2012 - 1:26 pm

Hewlett-Packard's announcement that it is merging its PC and printing divisions means layoffs are coming later this year.
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Amid a recovery, tech layoffs

Posted February 29, 2012 - 12:04 pm

The economy may be in a slow recovery and unemployment down, but layoffs in the tech sector are still a reality.
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HP's perilous PC dilemma

Posted February 28, 2012 - 3:00 pm

The longer Hewlett-Packard hangs onto its PC business, the less it will be worth. But can HP really afford to hack nearly 30% of its revenue without a strong, emerging business to replace it?
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HP's profit plunges in Q1; revenue down 7%

Posted February 22, 2012 - 7:13 pm

Hewlett-Packard reported fiscal first-quarter earnings on Wednesday that were 44% below last year as the company continues to struggle with declining PC sales.
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No. 5 tech story of 2011: HP's meltdown

Posted December 28, 2011 - 12:14 pm

HP's disastrous year was about more than Leo Apotheker (though he didn't help).
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HP shareholders better be patient, alright

Posted November 22, 2011 - 2:21 pm

Hewlett-Packard's fourth-quarter earnings were bad, but its foreseeable future doesn't necessarily look any better.
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HP’s decision to keep PC division won’t undo a lot of damage

Posted October 28, 2011 - 12:18 pm

In announcing it will keep its PC division, HP is trying to undo some serious damage. It may be too late.
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HP now open to idea that spinning off PC unit might be ill-advised

Posted October 12, 2011 - 9:51 am

After approving Leo Apotheker's plan to consider spinning of HP's PC unit, the company's leaders are having second thoughts.
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Whitman's political obsessions spell disaster for HP

Posted October 4, 2011 - 9:09 am

Meg Whitman's active obsession with politics means HP has a distracted CEO, just when it needs a fully focused one.
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It pays well to be a (failed) CEO

Posted September 29, 2011 - 7:28 pm

Fired HP chief executive Leo Apotheker is getting nearly $10 million in severance and bonuses, plus stock. All for 11 months of bumbling.
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HP, Yahoo boards set a new bar for bad

Posted September 23, 2011 - 2:29 pm

Shareholders of HP and Yahoo are paying for years of board dysfunction and poor CEO choices.
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Meg Whitman's early days at HP: Some predictions

Posted September 23, 2011 - 11:21 am

Now that Meg Whitman's in charge of HP, what can we expect? Here are some predictions.
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HP's dangerously dysfunctional board is the real problem

Posted September 22, 2011 - 11:36 am

Leo Apotheker may be the wrong person to run HP, but the company's real problem is in the board room.
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Is Apotheker on the way out at HP? (And is Meg Whitman on the way in?)

Posted September 21, 2011 - 1:20 pm

Rumors fly that HP's board of directors is prepared to oust embattled CEO Leo Apotheker.
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HP misled investors, shareholder alleges in lawsuit

Posted September 16, 2011 - 11:42 am

A proposed class-action lawsuit filed by a Hewlett-Packard shareholder claims the company misled investors about its performance and plans.
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HP's bizarre decision to make more TouchPads

Posted August 31, 2011 - 2:57 pm

Why does the company want to make more TouchPad tablets to sell at a loss?
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HP's webOS may yet live (but probably not with HP)

Posted August 29, 2011 - 1:41 pm

Maybe all those people buying up $99 TouchPads since HP announced it was killing off webOS are getting more than they bargained for.
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Should HP investors be worried or relieved over executive churn?

Posted May 26, 2011 - 12:02 pm

Hewlett-Packard investors face some tough choices as chief executive Leo Apotheker tries to remake the struggling computer maker by overhauling the executive ranks.
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Will Leo find the HP leaker?

Posted May 18, 2011 - 8:31 pm

As if HP's competitive woes weren't bad enough, the company apparently has a high-level memo leaker (or leakers) who could be undermining the efforts of new CEO Leo Apotheker.
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HP shares slammed on weak forecast

Posted May 17, 2011 - 11:42 am

Shares of Hewlett-Packard plunged more than 9 percent in early trading Tuesday after the company inadvertently issued a warning for "another tough quarter" in the form of a leaked memo from chief executive Leo Apotheker.
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HP shareholder suit about to get steamy

Posted March 18, 2011 - 3:31 pm

We may soon be able to read the infamous letter sent to Hewlett-Packard's board of directors that got former CEO Mark Hurd fired. And according to Business Insider, a person who has read the eight-page document from attorney Gloria Allred says, "It will burn your eyeballs."
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The best of Leo: Highlights from interview with HP's CEO

Posted March 16, 2011 - 2:17 pm

A day after unveiling his strategy for HP, chief executive Leo Apotheker talked with IDG's John Gallant and InfoWorld's Eric Knorr about how HP will succeed in the cloud, his plans for the company to become an analytics powerhouse, and his perplexity over this odd American tradition known as March Madness. OK, maybe not the last one.
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Apotheker puts the hurt on Hurd (indirectly, anyway)

Posted March 9, 2011 - 6:56 pm

He doesn't come right out and say it, but Leo Apotheker thinks former Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd left him a fine mess to clean up.
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WebOS to ship with every HP computer starting next year

Posted March 9, 2011 - 1:03 pm

In a bid to kickstart development of applications for its mobile operating system, Hewlett-Packard beginning next year will include WebOS alongside Microsoft Windows in every computer it ships, according to HP chief executive Leo Apotheker.
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