Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Leo Apotheker has resigned from the company and has been replaced by Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY). Below is an e-mail that Apotheker sent out to HP employees:

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) is highly considering the replacement of Leo Apotheker. One of the potential candidates is former eBay CEO Meg Whitman according to a source with Bloomberg.

Hewlett-Packard Company (Public, NYSE:HPQ) has made a barrage of terrible decisions in the last year. The Wall Street Journal did a great job summarizing it in one article. I’ll summarize it by bullet points.

After agreeing to acquire Autonomy and indicating that they will be shutting down the WebOS brand and spinning off their hardware business earlier this month, Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) has been on a downward spiral. This past Friday, the company stock price dropped to the point where HP’s market cap as a whole lost $16 billion. Analysts blame the drop entirely on poor upper management decisions, specifically around Leo Apotheker’s visions. This is HP’s worst single-day stock price fall since the Black Monday stock market crash in October 1987.

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) has agreed to buy Autonomy Corporation plc (LON:AU) for $10.3 billion. After the acquisition is complete, HP would spin off their PC business to focus on enterprise. Autonomy shareholders would receive $42.11 per share after the acquisition. This is a 64% premium from the day before the acquisition offer.

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Leo Apotheker has warned exeutives in an internal memo that “another tough quarter” is coming and he asked them to watch every penny. HP plans on reporting their results before market hours today. HP has sharply lowered expectations after sales trimmed in March. HP has to stay competitive with Cisco and Oracle in the cloud computing sector. [Reuters]

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Leo Apotheker said that every HP PC that will be shipped in 2012 “will include the ability to run webOS in addition to Windows.” Apotheker said that this will help pull in more developers to the webOS smartphone and tablet operating system. Apotheker also promised to pull development projects out from smaller teams at HP and commercialize them. [SlashGear]

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President Michael Mendenhall (pictured above) is departing from the company. Who is replacing him? Bill Wohl (Twitter account), the VP of Global Frield Communications and head of Integrated Communications for the co-CEO Bill McDermott is replacing Mendenhall. Rumor has it that HP CEO and former SAP co-CEO Léo Apotheker made the recommendation to hire Wohl. [AllThingsD]