Amit Chowdhry | December 30, 2011 | 535 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Gloria Allred, Hewlett Packard, HP, Jodie Fisher, Ken Glueck, Mark Hurd, Meg Whitman, Oracle Corporation

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.

Amit Chowdhry | December 9, 2011 | 526 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Hewlett Packard, HP, Meg Whitman, webOS

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) has decided to make webOS open source. HP plans to continue and will be active in the development of webOS, but the company is hoping that the community will help improve applications and web services for the next generation of devices.

Amit Chowdhry | December 9, 2011 | 516 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Hewlett Packard, HP, Meg Whitman, Palm webOS, webOS

According to PreCentral, Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman will be calling an all-hands meeting later today to make a final decision on webOS. There are only about four possible scenarios coming out of this meeting: a.) webOS will be killed off b.) They will keep webOS and focus more on mobile development c.) Try to find another buy for Palm / webOS d.) Postpone the decision again. My guess is that HP spent so much time, energy, and money investing in webOS that they will not just kill it off. My best guess is that they will keep it, but may not focus as much on using webOS technology as they have in the past with the development of the TouchPad. I have a feeling that they will just keep it on the back-burner given that the company’s core business is still PC manufacturing and enterprise IT. [PreCentral]
Amit Chowdhry | November 30, 2011 | 359 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Hewlett Packard, HP, Meg Whitman, Palm Inc.

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman has done an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro. She said that HP’s decision on what to do with webOS software will be within two weeks.

Amit Chowdhry | November 8, 2011 | 499 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Hewlett Packard, HP, Meg Whitman

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman addressed concerns that Palm and HP employees about what to do with webOS. “It’s really important to me to make the right decision, not the fast decision,” said Whitman at a meeting on the HP campus. A decision is expected to be made in 3-4 weeks.

Amit Chowdhry | October 28, 2011 | 616 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Hewlett Packard, HP, Meg Whitman, Palm Inc., Palm webOS, webOS

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Leo Apotheker was replaced by Meg Whitman last month. One of the reasons why Apotheker resigned was because investors thought he was crazy for considering to spin off the company’s PC division. The board of directors at Hewlett Packard including Whitman has decided that they will be keeping their PC division.

Amit Chowdhry | October 25, 2011 | 370 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Bo Fishback, Kleiner Perkins, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Meg Whitman, Zaarly

Zaarly is a mobile marketplace company that has added Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman to their board of directors. Zaarly has also recently raised $14 million in an investment led by Kleiner Perkins. “I just love her,” stated Zaarly co-founder and CEO Bo Fishback in an interview with VentureBeat. “She built the biggest peer-to-peer marketplace on the planet Earth … I just know she’s going to make me a better CEO.”

Amit Chowdhry | September 23, 2011 | 612 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Hewlett Packard, HP, Léo Apotheker, Meg Whitman