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Is This the HP Board That Will Allow Us to Stop Thinking About HP’s Board?
On any other day, so significant a shake-up on the board of directors of a Silicon Valley company as eminent as Hewlett-Packard would easily have been the lead story. That it took a management shift at...
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Michael Dell Thinks HP Paid "Way Too Much" for 3Par
Michael Dell is still thinking about the one that got away. In comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, today, Dell told Bloomberg he thinks rival Hewlett-Packard ended up paying...
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Shareholder Group Contends HP's New Board Is Too Chummy
When it shook up the membership of its board of directors in January, Hewlett-Packard flouted its own rules when new CEO Léo Apotheker participated in the selection of of new directors. That’s among...
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Another Advisory Firm Singles Out HP Director Babbio
A critical report by the advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services concerning Hewlett-Packard wasn’t the first urging shareholders to vote against the re-election of directors. While ISS advised...
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HP's New CEO Has a Big Day Planned, and a Bigger Job Ahead
Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO Léo Apotheker is going to have his big debut today at an event in San Francisco before assembled media and analysts. It will be his first big public speaking engagement since...
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Oracle to Court: HP Was Sneaky When We Made That Deal
Last year, software company Oracle and IT giant Hewlett-Packard settled a lawsuit stemming from Oracle’s hiring of Mark Hurd, a former HP CEO who resigned suddenly amid what might charitably be called...
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HP Chairman Ray Lane Talks About PC Business Spinoff, TouchPad's Last Hurrah
It’s becoming increasingly clear that Hewlett-Packard isn’t going to sell its PC business — formally known as its Personal Systems Group — to anyone. Instead it’s going to do what I suggested it would,...
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An Oracle Takeover of HP? Maybe in Ellison's Dreams.
As entertaining as it might be to watch Oracle take a run at Hewlett-Packard, that’s a high drama that we’re not likely to ever see played out. The battle pitting Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and former HP...
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It's Official: Meg Whitman Named HP CEO; Apotheker Out; Lane Is Exec Chairman
Done. Now what? Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO, is the new CEO and President of Hewlett-Packard. The move, which AllThingsD previously reported would happen today after the markets closed, is a dramatic...
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Whitman Talks to ATD About New Job at HP: "This Is an Icon"
Yesterday — right after she took over the reins at Hewlett-Packard — high-profile Silicon Valley tech exec Meg Whitman and Executive Chairman Ray Lane got on the phone with me to talk about her new...
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The Meg Whitman Era at HP Begins With a Conference Call (Audio)
And just like that, Hewlett-Packard, one of the world’s biggest technology companies and a Silicon Valley and American corporate icon, has a new CEO: Meg Whitman. Whitman made her first pronouncements...
View ArticleRay Lane's High-Profile Tech Friends Don't Necessarily Stay Best Friends Forever
Ray Lane hasn’t been shy about supporting high-profile friends in the tech world — or sharply revising his opinions as conditions changed. Thursday the leader of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s board reversed...
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Five Questions for HP's New CEO Meg Whitman and Chairman Ray Lane
It’s been an extraordinary week for Hewlett-Packard. On Monday, HP was a sleeping giant with an unclear strategy, an unpopular CEO and a stagnating share price. Then word came, via AllThingsD, that...
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Mike Lynch to Oracle: Oh, You Mean Those Slides
Autonomy CEO founder Mike Lynch apparently took Oracle’s PR bait, challenging his memory of a meeting with Oracle at which he was said to be seeking a buyer for his company. In a statement that seems...
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Apotheker's Exit Is Cheaper Than Expected for HP (But Still Pricey, Considering)
Léo Apotheker is gone from Hewlett-Packard, but he left so suddenly that the board of directors didn’t have time to finalize his severance package. That is until today. HP just filed an 8k with the...
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Oracle Buying Hewlett-Packard? Fuhgeddaboudit!
Amid all the recent drama that has unfolded at Hewlett-Packard — and the he-said she-said back and forth concerning Oracle and whether or not it was approached to buy Autonomy before HP ponied up —...
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Oracle's Larry Ellison, HP's Ray Lane and the Art of the Dart (Video)
Software giant Oracle had a thoroughly uneventful shareholders meeting today. So CEO Larry Ellison, given the occasion of a question from a shareholder, decided to end it on a feisty note, doing what...
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Hewlett-Packard's PC Market Share Grows, Raising Questions About Those...
Having announced to the world over the summer that it intends to get out of the PC business by spinning off its personal systems group into a separate company, you might have expected the resulting...
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HP's Look Ahead to 2012 Must Be Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold, but "Just Right"
Hewlett-Packard will today report results for its fourth fiscal quarter and its 2011 fiscal year. It will be the company’s first earnings announcement under its new CEO Meg Whitman, who stepped in as...
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HP's Whitman: Time to Rebuild the Balance Sheet
HP’s numbers are out, and while the quarter was better than expected — earnings were $1.17 per share on $32.3 billion in sales, beating the consensus view — opinions are split on the guidance. HP says...
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