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In an interview with CNBC, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) Chief Executive Meg Whitman said that the company does not need to spend billions of dollars on future acquisitions. "We don't need a $5 or $6 billion acquisition," she told the network. "I think there are acquisitions in the hundreds, $300...

Last year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) made a massive investment in fingerprint scanning technology. Instead of spending a small sum of money to acquire a startup (which is very common for the company), Apple paid $365 million to acquire AuthenTec. Before the acquisition, AuthenTec worked with companies...

Lenovo (OTC: LNVGY) is on the verge of a major shift that could change the landscape of outsourced manufacturing. According to DigiTimes, the Chinese tech giant wants to produce 60 percent of its notebooks in-house next year. In 2013, the company outsourced 75 percent of its notebook production to...

Lenovo (OTC: LNVGY) is making headlines this morning after reiterating its mission to acquire major businesses within the smartphone and PC sectors. In January, a Lenovo CFO Wong Wai Ming revealed that the company was looking at "all opportunities" -- including BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY), which was...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), CBS (NYSE: CBS), Merck (NYSE: MRK) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) all have or are expected to have monster stock repurchase plans of more than $5 billion. Below, we take a quick look at how these stocks have fared and what analysts expect from them. When it comes to returning...

In the ongoing battle for supremacy in PC manufacturing, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Lenovo continue to fight a heated battle. On a quarterly basis, either of these firms could emerge as the world's largest producer in any particular category. During the second quarter, Lenovo took the lead...

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) achieved a surprising degree of success with its $99 TouchPad. The tablet originally sold for $499. After succumbing to the power of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, which dominated the market at the time (and still does throughout most of the world), Hewlett-Packard...

Love them or hate them, tablet computers are here to stay. With over 100 million units sold in under three years, the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad has become a cultural icon and its domestic competition has established itself as well: Words like "Kindle Fire" and "Nook" have entered the American...

Chromebook manufacturers are gearing up for their next round of upgrades. According to DigiTimes, Acer will release a new 11.6-inch model in July. The new machine is expected to follow in the footsteps of its predecessor, the C7, and will be geared toward students. Acer's new Chromebook is set to...

Is Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) a little too comfortable for its own good? One analyst thinks he knows the answer. "The general view is that HP is a lazy company," Trip Chowdhry, Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, wrote in an e-mail to investors. "However, customer[s...

This weekend in Barron's online: the annual list of the best chief executives in the world, and the prospects for Darden Restaurants, Sarepta Therapeutics and Seacor Holdings. Cover Story "World's Best CEOs" by Andrew Bary. Barron's ninth annual list of the 30 best chief executives in the...

Less than two years ago, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) attempted to challenge Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) empire with an expensive, high-end tablet and an exclusive OS. Investors had high hopes for the tablet -- known as the HP TouchPad -- but the underwhelming pre-order figures were very telling. When...

Perhaps it is apropos to hear from some processed food giants this week, leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. Last Friday J.M. Smucker (NYSE: SJM) posted in line second-quarter results. Tyson Foods is scheduled to share its fiscal fourth-quarter results first thing Monday...

International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM), whose share price pulled back last week from a multiyear high, is scheduled to report its third-quarter 2012 results Tuesday, October 16, after the closing bell. Investors will be looking for the company to get back on the right track after last quarter'...