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Google Hires Several Of HP’s webOS Enyo Employees
Following the news of HP laying off 27,000 employees, Google has hired employees from them. Several members of the HP team that was responsible for building Enyo, an HTML5-based application framework that was integrated into the HP TouchPad is joining Google. Enyo is an essential part of HP’s open source strategy for webOS. It is likely that the poached Enyo employees will find themselves working on Android or on Chrome. One of the key employees that Google hired from Enyo is Matt McNulty, whom was responsible for heading up Enyo. Below is a statement from HP that was sent to The Verge:
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Autonomy Founder Mike Lynch Stepping Down From HP
Hewlett Packard acquired Autonomy for $10.3 billion in August 2011 under Leo Apotheker’s watch. Autonomy was profitable at the time of their acquisition, but under HP’s umbrella the company has seen significant declines in their licensing revenue. Autonomy founder Mike Lynch is now stepping down and he is being replaced by HP chief strategy officer and EVP of enterprise software Bill Veghte. In HP’s Q2 earnings release, the company said that this is being done to improve Autonomy’s performance. Below is a clip from the company’s earning announcement — I have bolded the part about Autonomy.
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CONFIRMED: HP Laying Off 27,000 People
Hewlett Packard is preparing to lay off 27,000 people, which is 8% of their global 325,000 person work-force. The cuts will happen by October 2014 so employees that are affected will have enough time to find new jobs. This is being called “multi-year restructuring.” Hewlett Packard is expecting that this would help make the company more innovative and cost effective. THe lay-off will include an early retirement program and a one-time charge of $1.8 billion. HP plans to continue investing in R&D, enterprise servers, software, etc.
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RUMOR: HP To Have Significant Layoffs Soon
According to sources with BusinessInsider, Hewlett Packard is going to have significant layoffs. The source said that HP will lay off roughly 10-15% of their total work-force. Since HP has about 320,000 employees, the company would be laying off over 32,000. However this would include an early retirement plan. Manufacturing is believed to not be hit as hard as other units.
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HP To Restart Tablet Manufacturing
Hewlett-Packard has announced that they will start production of their consumer tablets again running on the Windows 8 operating system. This is the first time that HP has started producing tablets again since the company suspended the TouchPad webOS tablet. At the Global Influencer Summit 2012, HP CEO Meg Whitman said that restarting tablet production is a strategic move to capitalize on the growth of tablet sales. HP’s Windows 8 tablets will come with cloud-based technology.
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HP Unveils Envy Spectre XT
Hewlett Packard has unveiled the 13-inch Envy Spectre XT today. This is a follow-up to the Envy 14 Spectre that was released in January. The original Spectre costs $1,400 and the Spectre XT starts at $1000. The original Spectre has the Sandy Bridge CPU, but the Spectre XT will come with the third-generation Ivy Bridge core processors. Specs of the the XT: three pounds, thickness of 14.5 millimeters, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of SSD storage, and 8 hours of battery life. The Spectre XT isn’t the only new HP ultrabook laptops. Below is a list of all the laptops that HP is releasing as put together by Engadget.
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Prith Banerjee Stepping Down As Head Of HP Labs
HP senior vice president Prith Banerjee is rumored to be stepping down from the company after working there for five years. Banerjee is leaving to work for a company that is based outside of the U.S. After Banerjee leaves on April 15th, HP Senior Fellow and director of Sustainable Ecosystems Research Group Chandrakant Patel will head HP Labs. Patel joined HP Labs in 1991. Banerjee previously built a chip startup company called AccelChip and sold it to Xilinx in 2006. He was also the dean of the UIUC College of Engineering.
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HP Combining Printer and PC Units
Hewlett Packard has announced today that they will be moving their Imaging and Printing Group under the PC-manufacturing Personal Systems Group. HP executive vice president Vyomesh “VJ” Joshi is leaving the company. The combined unit will report to executive vice president Todd Bradley.
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The Sexual Harassment Letter That Got Mark Hurd Fired
This past August former HP CEO Mark Hurd stepped down from the company after he was caught sending a sexual harassment letter. Hurd had a personal relationship with contractor Jodie Fisher, who had worked at HP as a greeter and hostess at company events. Hurd currently works at Oracle Corporation as a co-president and Meg Whitman has replaced him at Hewlett Packard. AllThingsD got their hands on the letter that attorney Gloria Allred wrote to Hurd on behalf of Jodie Fisher. I have embedded the letter below.
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HP Wanted $1.2 Billion For webOS and Palm
Most of you may remember how HP made webOS open source, but here is the full story of how they got there. Hewlett Packard acquired Palm for $1.2 billion in April 2010. After an unsuccessful TouchPad launch, the company hired Meg Whitman to decide what to do with Palm. Apparently Whitman considered selling Palm for $1.2 billion before making it open source.
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