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Steve Jobs Thought Hewlett-Packard was Being "Dismembered and Destroyed"
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 4:39pm | 346Read More...Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is getting hammered by investors who are concerned about the accounting irregularities that occurred within Autonomy before the PC maker acquired the firm. Shares are currently down more than 12 percent. This is the latest of many troubles at H-P. The company has traded...
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Hewlett-Packard Shares Tank on Autonomy Accounting Fraud
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 9:23am | 284Read More...Shares of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) traded sharply lower on Tuesday, down over 11 percent, after the company disclosed that there had been accounting irregularities at Autonomy prior to Hewlett-Packard acquiring the company. Hewlett-Packard acquired Autonomy in October of 2011 for about $10.2...
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Microsoft Earnings Preview: Looking Through Windows 8
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 10:20am | 489Read More...Tech giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will report third quarter earnings after market close on Thursday. The consensus analyst estimate is for an earnings per share figure of $0.56 on revenues of $16.42 billion. The majority of analysts have a Buy or similar rating on the stock, and price targets as...
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Hewlett-Packard Plunges on Lower Outlook
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 2:38pm | 576Read More...Shares of struggling tech giant Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) have fallen precipitously on Wednesday after the company slashed its outlook for the fiscal year. At the company's annual Securities Analyst Meeting, Hewlett-Packard president and CEO Meg Whitman said that she expects the company's...
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Can Windows 8 Sell Without Hewlett-Packard Employees?
Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 10:41am | 552Read More...Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) may not be able to sell Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) new Windows 8 platform -- that is, if they don't have enough people to do so. The PC maker is expected to let go of employees much faster than previously anticipated, losing about 11,500 over the next month or so. A...
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Hewlett-Packard: Dead Money...Still
Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 8:21am | 707Read More...Another disappointing earnings report has come and gone for Dow component Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), reminding investors that for as talented as CEO Meg Whitman may be, she faces an uphill battle in restoring the company's lost luster. At its nadir, the stock was down nearly five percent in...
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Jim Chanos: Hewlett Packard Disguising Maintenance R&D as Acquisitions
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 2:15pm | 270Read More...Famed short-seller Jim Chanos has set his sights on Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), which he describes as "a fly in the ointment." As Chanos took the room at CNBC's Delivering Alpha, shares dropped 2.5 percent. Later, shares largely recovered. "Some people might think this stock is cheap," Chanos...
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HP's CEO Meg Whitman Appears on CNBC
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 9:19am | 243Read More...On CNBC, HP's (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman appeared to give her outlook on the company in the wake of HP's earnings release yesterday. She stated that the company was only in the first steps of its turn-around, saying that she was only about 10-15% done. Whitman stated that the lazer printer...
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HP's CEO Meg Whitman Talks Business on CNBC
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 11:54am | 259Read More...Earlier today, Mega Whitman—HP's new CEO—appeared on CNBC and fielded questions about the corporation she now commands. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) reported earnings yesterday, which were slightly disappointing. Currently, the stock is trading down nearly 6%. Overall, Whitman stated that HP...
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Can a Picture of the CEO Predict Stock Performance?
Monday, December 19, 2011 - 8:14am | 863Read More...Earlier this fall a noted author, Michael Lewis, talked about an interesting investment strategy on CNN's Global Public Square. Lewis discussed his Moneyball book and the theory that people make misjudgments when they rely too much on their eyes instead of numbers and hard data. Lewis mentioned...
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Hewlett-Packard Admits Apple Will Lead in 2012
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 3:19pm | 263Read More...This is what happens when you spend 10 years manufacturing crap. Meg Whitman, the wannabe-politician-turned-HP-CEO, has reportedly told a French newspaper that she believes it is possible Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) could become the world's number-one PC manufacturer. That's according to TechCrunch,...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of November 21
Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 10:57am | 1061Read More...For a holiday-shorted week, there will still be plenty for investors and analysts to mull over on the earnings front. Quarterly results from global tech company Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), farm and construction equipment maker Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE) and food companies Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB...
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HP Does 180, Keeps PC Unit
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 4:59pm | 225Read More...Tonight after the market closed, Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ) announced it would be keeping its personal computer unit in house, and not spinning it off as the company had said it would earlier this year. “HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG...
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Zaarly, the Online Bazaar with Impressive Investor Support, Has Raised $14.1 Million
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 10:58am | 307Read More...The money was raised to increase its presence in additional markets. With backing from Two and a Half Men star Ashton Kutcher, Zaarly was inspired by the concept of a traditional bazaar. Earlier this year, Bo Fishback, the company's co-founder and CEO, told Benzinga about this premise. “People...
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Hewlett-Packard Pulls a Netflix, May Not Separate PC Division
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 10:08am | 278Read More...It's a good month for undoing bad mistakes. Earlier this week, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) announced that it had cancelled its ridiculous plans to split its streaming and DVD businesses into two separate companies. Now it seems that Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) might follow suit. According to the Wall...
