TouchPad's downfall: It's an iPad marketMarketWatch - 19 Aug, 2011"Right now the tablet market is not a tablet market. It is an iPad market," says Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group. But he says HP can't simply blame Apple's tablet dominance for its own failed consumer products. |
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Hewlett-Packard stock falls 20 percent after changes announcedSan Jose Mercury News - Jeremy C. Owens - 19 Aug, 2011Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) stock lost more than one-fifth of its value in morning trading Friday, one day after the venerable Palo Alto tech giant announced major changes to its business. HP shares were trading at $23.56 at 9 am PDT ... |
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A gallery of WebOS devicesZDNet - 19 Aug, 2011by ZDNet Author | August 18, 2011 6:00pm PDT | Image 1 of 8 HP announced today that it was discontinuing operations for devices running on WebOS, including its recently launched TouchPad and smartphones. The news was disheartening, though maybe not ... |
HP may hive off PC unit, to buy Autonomy for $11.7 billionHindustan Times - 19 Aug, 2011Hewlett-Packard is considering a dramatic turn away from the struggling PC business by spinning it off into a separate company and is buying British software maker Autonomy Corp for $11.7 billion, focusing on faster-growing technology sectors. ... |
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HP Kills TouchPad, Support for webOS DevicesPC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 19 Aug, 2011Hours after news broke that Hewlett-Packard was considering a spin-off of its PC business, the company also said that it will discontinue support for webOS devices, including the TouchPad tablet. The move also affects webOS-based ... |
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H-P sets expensive legacy with Autonomy dealMarketWatch - Rex Crum - 19 Aug, 2011SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) â€" There's no way of knowing how long Leo Apotheker will serve as Chief Executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. but his plan for HP to acquire business-analytics software company Autonomy Corp. has already ... |
The Next 10 Crazy Tech News Stories We Just Might SeeSan Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 19 Aug, 2011Then HP killed the TouchPad after seven weeks, shut down its Palm hardware line completely, and announced it might be getting out of the PC business altogether. As another tech reporter remarked to me last night, it's the only week in his career where ... |
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10 Questions for HP about WebOSPCWorld (blog) - Eric Mack - 19 Aug, 2011Hey, Hewlett-Packard, you're a real head-scratcher. Just 16 months ago you promise to change the mobile world by acquiring WebOS. Now, you've raised the white flag on that $1.2 billion buy. ... |
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webOS: A compelling OS that never appeared on great hardwareZDNet (blog) - Matthew Miller - 19 Aug, 2011Summary: HP/Palm webOS is a very good mobile operating system, but neither company could get compelling hardware released and developers never seemed to flock to the OS. I started using Palm devices with ... |
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HP says goodbye to the PCGlobe and Mail (blog) - david berman - 19 Aug, 2011It is all very fine for a company to restructure its business when things are going well. But when the company is struggling, investors yelp. Such is the case with Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ-N on Friday morning after the struggling computer maker made a ... |
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HP: Down 20%; Now Officially Hated By Almost EveryoneForbes (blog) - Eric Savitz - 19 Aug, 2011Hewlett-Packard shares are down sharply Friday after the company's flurry of news yesterday, which included an $11 billion deal to buy Autonomy, the decision to spin the PC business, the shut down of the WebOS hardware operations, ... |
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Wild Day Leaves HP With Much To ProveInformationWeek (blog) - Fritz Nelson - 19 Aug, 2011A low margin PC business combined with a stilted mobile effort was a distraction for a company with much bigger battles to win. But it's a shame HP didn't realize this long ago. By Fritz Nelson InformationWeek Earlier this week I asked if this was ... |
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HP considers leaving the computer businessMacleans.ca - 19 Aug, 2011by macleans.ca on Friday, August 19, 2011 11:31am - 0 Comments Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest personal-computer maker, may be getting ready to drop out of the PC business altogether. The news comes as a result of sluggish computer sales in recent ... |
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Lynch guides Autonomy into big tech's graspReuters - Paul Sandle, Hans Peters - 19 Aug, 2011LONDON (Reuters) - Mike Lynch once claimed to enjoy watching sheep-dog trials. The software business he founded that is now at the heart of Hewlett-Packard's new strategy makes its living herding cats. Autonomy Plc software searches and ... |
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HP pulls plug on tablets and phone business PCs might followMoneycontrol.com - 19 Aug, 2011There's so much speculation that the PC business is suffering. It's something that studies and reports are indicating and clearly, things aren't working out for even the Goliath of PC manufacturers - HP. In what should come as a shock to many, ... |
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RPT-UPDATE 1-Autonomy/HP deal spotlights data analysisReuters - Georgina Prodhan, Victoria Howley - 19 Aug, 2011LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Hopes Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ.N) $11.7 billion bid for Autonomy (AUTN.L) will be the first of many in the European software industry could be misplaced because Autonomy has an appeal that others cannot ... |
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HP's WebOS mess: When smartphone assets go toxicRegister - Andrew Orlowski - 19 Aug, 2011On Tuesday, HP was talking to the Wall Street Journal about putting WebOS in stoves, fridges and cars. By Thursday, HP didn't even want to put WebOS into smartphones and tablets. The platform has been cast ... |
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HP plans to spin-off PC biz; to buy UK's Autonomy for $10.3 bnEconomic Times - 19 Aug, 2011NEW YORK: Embarking on drastic restructuring efforts, technology major Hewlett-Packard is planning to spin off its personal computer business, while deciding to discontinue tablet offerings. Hewlett-Packard (HP), which saw its July quarter profit ... |
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The incredible shrinking tablet landscapeZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - 19 Aug, 2011Summary: The tablet landscape has never been very big, but events this week have seen the number of viable competitors from four to just two. HP shook up the technology sector with the bombs it dropped ... |
Reactions to HP Announcement: Jobs's Sage-Hood ConfirmedWall Street Journal (blog) - Tom Loftus - 19 Aug, 2011Reaction has been diverse to yesterday's news that Hewlett-Packard was planning to exit the PC and tablet business. Apple CEO Steve Jobs's status as a tech sage has been re-affirmed. The sanity of HP's CEO has been questioned. ... |
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Autonomy/HP deal spotlights data analysisMontreal Gazette - Georgina Prodhan - 19 Aug, 2011The amount of data in the world is doubling every two years and is expected to reach 1.8 zettabytes this year, equivalent to every global citizen having 215 million high-resolution MRI scans every ... |
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HP's TouchPad and WebOS have been killed - and Apple is the main suspectChicago Sun-Times - Andy Ihnatko - 19 Aug, 2011My friends, oh, my friends! The things I wrote and then deleted from this column! Words like “Jerks,” “Twits,” “Paltroons,” and “cowards”! And then, phrases like “four-flushing bastards” and “hapless, ... |
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HP plummets 23% to six-year lowCNN - David Goldman - 19 Aug, 2011HP shares plunged in the wake of its announcement that it is looking to sell or spin-off its PC business. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Shares of Hewlett-Packard tumbled Friday morning following the ... |
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HP webOS in limbo after TouchPad is killedCBS News - Chenda Ngak - 19 Aug, 2011(CBS) - Hewlett-Packard has officially killed the HP TouchPad, leaving webOS in a precarious position. We reported Thursday that computer giant HP hit the brakes the TouchPad, a computer tablet that has been widely considered a flop by tech journalists ... |
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HP Drops 20%: Six Downgrades; Autonomy Bid 'Massively' ExpensiveBarron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - 19 Aug, 2011Shares of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) have deepened their losses in pre-market trading since last night's drop following the company's fiscal Q3 earnings report and a rather disappointing outlook: the stock is now down $5.51, or almost 19%, ... |
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'Autonomy could have been UK's Google'Times of India - 19 Aug, 2011LONDON: It could have been the British Google. That's the lament of those who mourn the agreed sale of Cambridge software firm Autonomy to US tech giant Hewlett-Packard for $11.7 billion in cash. Perhaps. But it's hard to see a convincing reason why ... |
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HP is Too Big to Build StuffPC Magazine - Dan Costa - 19 Aug, 2011When Russell Brand got that tap to be the HP TouchPad spokesperson, I was concerned. When HP cut the price of the TouchPad by $100, I was worried, but I thought it might have been a bold move to grab market share. ... |
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Australian retailer stops selling HP TouchPadZDNet - Luke Hopewell - 19 Aug, 2011Electronics retailer Harvey Norman orders its franchisees to pull thousands of webOS-powered HP TouchPads off the shelves, after Hp announces that it would no longer be producing the device. Electronics retailer Harvey Norman has ordered its ... |
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Hewlett Packard's U-turnBBC News - Tim Weber - 19 Aug, 2011The world's largest computer maker, Hewlett Packard, plans to sell its personal computers business, ditch its line of smartphones, and buy UK software company Autonomy for $11.7bn (ÂŁ7.1bn) - but how does it all fit together? For Hewlett Packard, it is ... |
HP: webOS hardware dead, PC business could be spun offZDNet (blog) - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - 19 Aug, 2011Summary: Another tablet bites the dust as HP shutters webOS hardware and considers spinning off its entire PC business. In a shock announcement yesterday HP announced that it is to cease ... |
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