How Steve Jobs Tried to Save a Fellow Rebel CEO
When Hewlett Packard ousted CEO Mark Hurd in 2010, another once-ousted CEO named Steve Jobs tried to help him get his job back, new interviews reveal.
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Well you had to see this coming, sadly: HP has decided to do a little housecleaning at Autonomy, the company it acquired that it claims led to that huge $8.8 billion loss still shaking the tech giant.
When Hewlett Packard ousted CEO Mark Hurd in 2010, another once-ousted CEO named Steve Jobs tried to help him get his job back, new interviews reveal.
The SEC and the FBI are investigating the writedown, after which we might have some answers on this charge. Until then, there are two ways to see this $8.8-billion meltdown—the HP way and the Autonomy way.
Because of "serious accounting improprieties" Hewlett Packard is taking an $8.8 billion write-down on Autonomy, a company it acquired last year for $11.7 billion, which essentially wipes out all of its profits for last quarter.
Meg Whitman has yet to prove herself, as Hewlett-Packard's Q1 earnings missed expectations, reporting first quarter net revenue of $30.0 billion, down 7% from the prior-year period.
It's been more than a year since Mark Hurd was fired as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, but the sexual harassment complaint from former soft-core film star Jodie Fischer that led to his demise has finally seen the light of day thanks to All Things D.
As HP debates the fate of its dying webOS, the mobile operating system HP used in its failed tablet TouchPad, it has the perfect man defending the unpopular system: A tech savvy guy who has practiced self-deprecating humor for years.
Hacking somebody's printer remotely seems like a silly idea -- how would you pick up your fraudulent documents? But researchers at Columbia say they've found a way to do it, and one effect could be setting the things on fire from afar.
Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest tech company, decided to keep its PC business after calculating that spinning it off would cost $1.5 billion.
All Thing's Digital reports the former eBay wants to "run the company"
Silicon Valley is not impressed by Hewlett-Packard's board of directors
HP's board is meeting about replacing CEO Leo Apotheker, who oversaw TouchPad's massive failure
HP will manufacture more of its tablets that nobody wanted
Or is it so brilliant? Maybe people just love cheap things
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