HP CEO Mark Hurd was inevitably asked about the U.S. economy during the company's earnings conference call and the message was clear: It's hard to chart tech spending right now. HP reported a strong second quarter due to sales abroad, but analysts spent a good chunk of...
Updated: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday he plans to use a familiar playbook to integrate Electronic Data Systems: Leverage scale, squeeze costs — and underpromise and overdeliver. "We're running the playbook we know how to run very well," said Hurd, on a conference call with analysts....
A great many chief executive officers have looked at their boards as, well, unfortunate necessities. They don't truly value the expertise and insight that can be gleaned from a board. So they've tended to work with their nominating committees to stack their boards that term is only slightly too uncharitable...
What happens when a company straddles two industries, profiting in one arena and struggling in the other? That was Hewlett-Packard's story a couple years back -- its printing business paid the bills while Dell took the lead in PC sales. Then-CEO Carly Fiorina (responsible for the ill-fated Compaq purchase) responded...
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced that it has appointed Don Grantham to serve as senior vice president and chief sales officer, effective immediately. Grantham will report to Ann Livermore, executive vice president of the Technology Solutions Group at HP, and be responsible for HP's enterprise...
STAMFORD, Conn. -- Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) today announced that a team of six employees was honored with the company's 2007 Inventor of the Year Award. Tom Athens, Bob Cordery, John Hurd, Maria Parkos, Mark Scribe and Roger Ratzenberger were recognized for their work in developing a method to...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Riding a hot streak that has doubled its stock price in the past three years, Hewlett-Packard Co. is rolling the dice on a $13.2 billion acquisition of technology-services provider Electronic Data Systems Corp. The all-cash deal announced Tuesday represents HP's biggest gamble under the...
PRINCETON, N.J., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Next Inning Technology Research (http://www.nextinning.com/), a subscription service focused on semiconductor and technology stocks, announced it has updated outlooks for Hewlett-Packard , Amtech Systems , Applied Materials , and Alvarion . This has been a very profitable earnings season for Next...
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday revealed a 13.9-billion-dollar deal to buy Electronic Data Systems in a tie-up that creates a global powerhouse in computer services to compete against IBM. World leading computer maker HP said it will buy Texas-based business services outsourcing titan EDS for...
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Hewlett-Packard Co. announced plans Tuesday to buy Electronic Data Systems in a tie-up that creates a global powerhouse in computer services to compete against IBM. World leading computer maker HP said it would buy Texas-based business services outsourcing titan EDS for 25 dollars a...
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Hewlett-Packard Co. announced plans Tuesday to buy Electronic Data Systems in a tie-up that creates a global powerhouse in computer services to compete against IBM. World leading computer maker HP said it would buy Texas-based business services outsourcing titan EDS for 25 dollars a...
Three of four candidates on a slate of reformers seeking posts with the Triview Metropolitan District won their contests in an election Tuesday. Triview operates much like a town government, covering 2,580 acres and overlapping with the town of Monument in northern El Paso County. It...
OAKLAND -- Two seasons ago, Mark Ellis set an American League fielding percentage record by committing only two errors in 632 chances. So there are few people more qualified to judge quality defense. And the way he sees it, the A's have done nothing in this...
In an interview with CNN.com, Princeton University professor Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah said: "It would be impossible to say how Things Fall Apart influenced African writing. It would be like asking how Shakespeare influenced English writers or Pushkin influenced Russians. Achebe didn't only play the game, he invented it." ...
Ziff Davis Enterprise Editors Select Those Shaping the Future of Technology STAMFORD, Conn. -- Faisal Hoque, Founder, Chairman and CEO of the BTM Corporation, has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Technology by the editors of Ziff Davis Enterprise. The ranking, put together by...
OAKLAND -- A's manager Bob Geren launched into his usual postgame summation Sunday and, in discussing the efforts of Joe Blanton, quickly touched upon an awfully familiar theme. "Another excellent start by Joe. He's pitching ... like an ace," Geren said. "We're not getting him any...
IT'S AS MUCH a given as taxes and death. No matter how hard one might coax, extracting even the mildest bit of color from the lips of A's second baseman Mark Ellis is about as realistic as hitting a grounder through his legs. But it didn't...
Wireless News03-12-2008HP to Present Live Audio Webcast of Stockholders MeetingWIRELESS NEWS-March 12, 2008-HP to Present Live Audio Webcast of Stockholders Meeting C2008 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com HP plans a live audio webcast of its 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in Boston. Mark Hurd, HP chairman and chief...
PALO ALTO, California AFP — The world's top computer maker Hewlett Packard is narrowing its research focus to Internet opportunities and its growing role as a software company. HP's 600 researchers in China, Japan, Israel, Russia, India, Britain and the United States will go from working on about...
Wireless News03-02-2008HP Shares Growth Strategies at Its Americas Partner ConferenceWIRELESS NEWS-March 2, 2008-HP Shares Growth Strategies at Its Americas Partner Conference C2008 10Meters - http:// www.10meters.com HP this week shared its long-term growth strategies for channel partners -- along with enhancements to the company s flagship PartnerONE program and...
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