Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on August 23, 2011 at 5:00 pm PT
What does Carly Fiorina think about last week’s HP moves — which might be seen as undoing her legacy? Someone, naturally, put her in front of a camera and asked.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 14, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker makes his all-important debut before the press and Wall Street analysts today. Much will be said about the new corporate strategy he lays out, but his most important task will be convincing all concerned that he’s the man for the job.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 21, 2011 at 3:45 pm PT
Drama in the boardroom at Hewlett-Packard during the last decade has often overshadowed the company itself. Perhaps yesterday’s sudden shake-up will bring that to an end.
Kara Swisher in News on November 1, 2010 at 10:00 am PT
After all Meg Whitman’s money and all those demon sheep thrown by Carly Fiorina, polls right now are showing that it is unlikely that either of them is going to emerge victorious in tomorrow’s elections in California.
And while both candidates drastically oversold their business credentials as just the thing the troubled state needs, it seems the magic of tech in California does not necessarily transfer to voter enthusiasm quite so neatly.
John Paczkowski in News on October 1, 2010 at 9:43 am PT
Hewlett-Packard’s decision to name Léo Apotheker as its new CEO hasn’t gone over particularly well with investors, who dragged the company’s stock into the mud this morning. At $40.50, HP shares are down 3.76 percent as I write this. So how is it going over internally, particularly with those execs who’d been internal candidates for the job?
Therese Poletti, Senior Columnist, MarketWatch, Tech Tales in News on August 19, 2010 at 3:00 pm PT
The drama and mystery surrounding Mark Hurd’s abrupt departure as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. have shined an unflattering light on the company as we learn how he really changed H-P.
Wall Street loved his obsession with cutting costs, but employees did not. He brought even more major changes to the company’s once paternalistic culture, much like his predecessor Carly Fiorina, who pretty much killed the old H-P Way.
With Hurd at the helm, H-P became an even tougher place to work, with even less emphasis on innovating anything new.
Kara Swisher in News on August 9, 2010 at 5:15 am PT
Of course, because Silicon Valley is possibly the least sexy of places, any whiff of a scandal involving a powerful CEO and a blonde model/actress/cougar/contractor is going to get the lion’s share of the attention in the coverage.
Thus, the resignation Friday of Hewlett-Packard head Mark Hurd and the private settlement with consultant Jodie Fisher have morphed into a juicy summer potboiler.
Today, when the markets open, we’ll see if any of it matters to Wall Street or if investors have moved on to trying to determine the next moves for the tech giant and its leadership.
Kara Swisher in News on July 12, 2010 at 2:53 pm PT
It’s worth checking out an article in the New York Times today that points to a very questionable, but–as it turned out–politically savvy angel investment made by former eBay CEO and now Republican candidate for California governor Meg Whitman.
The piece alleges that Whitman’s $1 million investment in late 2008 in a Hollywood entertainment company called Tools Down! Productions was done to ease a prominent Republican strategist away from working for her rival for the GOP nod.
This kind of thing has happened before, of course.
But what’s interesting is to see Silicon Valley’s digitally enabled moneybags step up to the very stained political table and jump right into the game.
Kara Swisher in News on June 21, 2010 at 12:00 pm PT
While there have been politicians running for office in California before who have worked in the tech sector, there’s no doubt that the prospects for two of Silicon Valley’s more prominent execs–Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina–represent an unusual and interesting situation in the state’s history.
With the tech sector a beacon of hope in a very rough economy and a symbol of health compared with a debt-saddled government, it’s no surprise both candidates are touting their time as CEOs of two of California’s better known digital giants–Whitman at eBay and Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard.
But will it work, or does it leave both open to a lot more scrutiny than they think?
Kara Swisher in News on April 27, 2010 at 5:01 pm PT
Apple CEO and Co-founder Steve Jobs will appear at the eighth
D: All Things Digital, in an interview on the opening night, kicking off our tech and media conference that will also include famed Hollywood director James Cameron, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, among others.
Jobs has been interviewed onstage many times at
D, including in a famous joint session with Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates in 2007.
There is much to talk to Jobs about in 2010, obviously, including the new iPad, its tense relationship with Google and the next innovations from the computer giant.
