What HP’s new cloud guy wants you to know about HP’s new cloud
Saar Gillai says HP’s darkest days are behind it and with its new OpenStack cloud, the company is hitting its stride. Then again, what else would he say? Read more »
Here’s HP’s comeback tablet: the steel-framed, Android-based Slate7
The small sequel to the ill-fated TouchPad opts for Android, running on a dual-core processor. The big selling points appear to be a stainless steel shell and the inclusion of Beats Audio. Read more »
HP’s off-and-on romance with its PC business is on again
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Revenue for Hewlett-Packard’s personal systems was off 8 percent year over year, but Meg Whitman reiterated that the company is devoted to this margin-stretched business. Read more »
Welcome back, Michael Dell: It’s time to reclaim your name
Dell is filthy rich and his empire is spread wide and far. There is a lot he can do with his time – politics for example. The question is why is Michael Dell putting his reputation and fortune on the line. I have an answer. Read more »
Report: HP still has no idea what to do with itself
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The latest drama in HP’s ongoing saga is a decidedly wishy-washy story that suggests the board is considering a break up of the company’s businesses. Read more »
Carly Fiorina is selling herself as political pundit; not everyone’s buying
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Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, who left that company under a cloud, now paints herself as an economic whiz kid on Sunday morning talk shows. Note to Fiorina: Not everyone has amnesia. Read more »
HP cloud chief’s exit sparks more confusion
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More questions around HP’s cloud strategy cropped up this week with the reported departure of Zorawar Biri Singh, SVP of HP Converged Cloud and GM for HP Cloud Services. Read more »
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos gets more kudos, but challenges loom
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Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon 16 years ago, is the second-best CEO on the planet, according to Harvard Business Review’s latest rankings. Last month Fortune named him its Business Person of the Year. Read more »
From Apple Maps to Autonomy: Top tech blunders of 2012
For every high point of 2012, there were also a few forehead-slapping moments. From Apple Maps to HP’s Autonomy to the Facebook IPO, here’s the best of the worst. Read more »
Carl Icahn and HP — match made in heaven?
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Unconfirmed reports have it that the Carl Icahn, the infamous corporate raider, is buying up Hewlett-Packard shares. Investors think Icahn and HP’s board are meant for each other. Read more »
This week in cloud: HP saga roils on, Cisco buys Meraki, Amazon’s tax bite
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Hewlett-Packard’s Autonomy woes just keep on rolling; Cisco drops $1.2 billion on Meraki’s Wi-Fi smarts; and Amazon’s retail operations face sales tax bite on in more states — sparking questions on the impact on cloud services. Read more »
Why European startups should be furious about Autonomy
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Meg Whitman’s claims that Autonomy executives deliberately misled HP over its $11 billion acquisition are under investigation by the authorities. But whatever the truth, the damage is already done, as the affair further erodes the fragile relationship between Silicon Valley and Europe’s brightest technology companies. Read more »
Report: Feds look into HP claims of Autonomy fraud
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into HP’s allegations that former Autonomy management misled the company about its books, according to a Bloomberg News report. The SEC brought in the FBI because criminal acts have been alleged by HP management. Read more »
Former Autonomy execs reject HP’s fraud charges
Autonomy’s former management, including Mike Lynch, deny HP charges that they misled, practiced bad accounting and failed to disclose key information to HP prior to its acquisition of Autonomy. HP has asked the US and UK authorities to pursue a criminal investigation. Read more »
HP requests fraud investigation into Autonomy deal
Update: Hewlett Packard charges Autonomy with accounting improprieties, misrepresentations and disclosure failures and is pushing US and UK authorities to pursue criminal action. The company said $5 billion of an $8.8 billion charge is related directly to Autonomy’s misbehavior. Read more »
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HP’s Whitman: Wait till 2014 for turnaround
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Hewlett-Packard’s turnaround will take longer than observers had hoped. CEO Meg Whitman said the company should see traction by 2014 and that FY 2013 will be tough due to internal issues and macroeconomic “headwinds.” Read more »
Can HP jumpstart its cloud computing effort?
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The troubled IT giant is about to tweak its cloud services effort according to a Bloomberg News report. The question is whether yet another new strategy can give the company the traction it needs so badly. Read more »
HP earnings: 6 lowlights
It’s slow going for the HP turnaround Meg Whitman is trying to engineer. There’s softness in the PC business, in printers, in servers — just more bad news atop the $8 billion write-down of enterprise services that HP pre-announced. Not a pretty picture. Read more »
Dell & HP together on a long road to nowhere
Hewlett Packard and Dell, two companies that are the face of the PC business, reported terrible financial results for the second quarter of 2012. They talk about a cloud makeover. Too bad, they missed the mobile opportunity and have no presence in tablet & smartphone business. Oops! Read more »
Ruh-roh: HP to take $8B charge
The massive charge is related to HP’s enterprise services arm constructed around its $14 bilion purchase of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 2008. The company will announce its third quarter earnings on August 22. Read more »
HP better not together?
A UBS analyst is calling for the breakup of Hewlett-Packard arguing that the separate parts are way more valuable than the whole. Ironically, that’s the kind of thinking that got former CEO Leo Apotheker booted last year. Read more »
When DIY plans meet reality: Zaarly unveils “Anywhere” API
Found a photo of a beautiful birthday cake or home decorating project you want to replicate, but don’t have the DIY skills to make it yourself? Zaarly’s new API lets users post inspirational photos to the site where chefs and handymen can turn photos into reality. Read more »
HP, Oracle, Microsoft prep for cloudapalooza
Next week, legacy tech powers Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Microsoft will vie for the spotlight as they set forth their cloud computing game plans at closely scheduled events. All three have prodigious resources and all three lag far behind cloud giant Amazon Web Services. Read more »
HP names new COO, taps outsider to lead software unit
HP puts Silver Lake veteran George Kadifa in charge of software and promotes Bill Veghte to COO, all in a bid to fix its struggling enterprise software business — which was a key priority for former CEO Leo Apotheker and his replacement Meg Whitman. Read more »
Autonomy founder Lynch to leave HP
The big news out of Hewlett-Packard’s second quarter earnings call is that the company will lose 9,000 employees in FY 2012, with former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch among the departed. Enterprise software chief Bill Veghte will take over stewardship of Autonomy. Read more »
HP earnings: top 3 takeaways
Hewlett-Packard continues to be rocked by a flood-induced hard drive shortage; its go-to printing business is sputtering; the company as a whole continues to spend too much on too many products; and it needs to get its design-and-execution mojo back. Read more »
Whitman to kick off HP comeback tour
When HP CEO Meg Whitman addresses thousands of partners Wednesday, there will be a lot on the line. She has to convince them that the management snafus of the last two years are firmly in the past. The partners would love to believe that. Read more »
HP proxy: Ray Lane’s $10 million plus comp and other fun facts
While 2011 was a bad year for Hewlett-Packard, it was a good one for chairman Ray Lane, at least financially. Lane logged more than $10 million in total compensation mostly in stock and options — for the fiscal year, according to the HP proxy. Read more »
5 things HP must do in 2012
2011 is surely a year that Hewlett-Packard would like to forget. It fired its second CEO in two years. It said it might sell its PC business and push WebOS phones and tablets only to back off on both moves. Here’s what HP needs to do in 2012. Read more »
HP’s quarter afflicted by webOS fallout, weak services mix
Hewlett-Packard continues to struggle with fallout from the decision to nix its webOS-based tablets, a less-than-stellar mix of IT services, and its newly completed acquisition of Autonomy. The question is how long those reverberations will impact the company’s profitability and growth prospects. Read more »
HP dithering puts it behind the eight ball in mobility
Hewlett-Packard, the world’s biggest PC maker, has cycled through a flurry of client device strategies in the past year. Those changes, including the discontinuation of the TouchPad, bred confusion not only about HP’s hardware roadmap but also about its ability to drive future cloud services. Read more »
HP’s Whitman: We’re Going To Make Windows 8 Tablets
HP’s decision to keep its PC group after announcing plans a month ago to get a divorce has no impact on the fate of WebOS, but new CEO Meg W… Read more at paidContent »
New HP CEO, new plan: It’s keeping the PC biz after all
Sorry Dell, Lenovo and Acer: HP’s not abandoning the PC business after all. The world’s largest maker of PCs announced moments ago that after thinking long and hard about it, they’re going to keep on making computers after all. Read more »
Report: Amazon Wants To Buy WebOS; That Could Mean Kindle Phones, PCs Too
HP’s WebOS is up in the air and we now have a new player that apparently wants to catch it: Amazon, the upstart etailer that come to dominat… Read more at paidContent »
What’s next for HP?
Will Hewlett-Packard persevere on the enterprise software and cloud computing track set by dearly departed CEO Leo Apotheker? The answer is yes–well–maybe, according to Executive Director Ray Lane and newly minted CEO Meg Whitman, who spoke on the analyst call announcing management changes. Read more »
Watch out tech world. This CEO knows consumers
Say what you will about Meg Whitman as the new HP CEO. She knows consumers. Now she’ll have a chance to apply her consumer touch to one of Silicon Valley’s most storied brands, which could have a chance to give Apple a run for its money. Read more »
Scott McNealy: Meg Whitman will be good for HP
There are a lot of naysayers when it comes to the appointment of Meg Whitman as the new chief executive of the beleaguered technology giant, Hewlett-Packard. Scott McNealy, the co-founder and ex-CEO of Sun Microsystems, isn’t one of them. Read more »
HP: Leo’s out, but his strategy remains
Hewlett-Packard canned CEO Leo Apotheker because of miscommunications and lack of teamwork, not because of his grand enterprise software-and-cloud strategy for the IT giant, said Ray Lane, newly minted executive board chairman for HP. Both he and new CEO Meg Whitman back Apotheker’s strategy. For now. Read more »
Update: HP Makes It Official: Apotheker Out, Meg Whitman To Take CEO Spot
HP (NYSE: HPQ) capped off a surreal month during which it put its PC group on ice and shelved its tablet hardware group by firing CEO Leo Ap… Read more at paidContent »
