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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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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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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 Making webOS Open Source
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.
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HP’s Meg Whitman Deciding On Final WebOS Decision Today
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]
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Meg Whitman: HP’s Decision On webOS Will Be Within 2 Weeks
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.
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Meg Whitman: “It’s Not Obvious Exactly What To Do Here” In Regards To WebOS
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.
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HP Is Keeping Its PC Division, But Will Stop 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.
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Zaarly Adds Meg Whitman To Board Of Directors
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.”
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Exit: Apotheker, Enter: Whitman
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:
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