HP’s Whitman: Time to Rebuild the Balance Sheet

The first earnings report of the Meg Whitman era at Hewlett-Packard gets under way with a quarter that beats the Street, but with guidance for the year ahead that looks too conservative.
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Executive Moves Continue at HP as Investor Relations VP Leaves

In another executive shift at HP, Steve Fieler, VP of investor relations, will be leaving in November.
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Apotheker's Keynote: The Reviews From Analysts Are Mixed

Analysts are reacting to yesterday’s presentation by Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker. Some liked what they saw. Others, not so much.

Apotheker Sets Hewlett-Packard on a Cloud-Centric Path

Before today, if you were going to pick one key weakness at Hewlett-Packard, it might have had something to do with the perception that HP is not a cloud computing company. At yesterday’s big HP Summit in San Francisco, CEO Léo Apotheker seemed to want to turn that perception on its head.

Yahoo's Bartz (No. 8), Facebook's Sandberg (No. 22), Google's Mayer (No. 44) and More Techies Make Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women List

Time Inc.’s Fortune magazine–which never met a list it did not like to make–had a solid group of women tech types on its “50 Most Powerful Women 2009” roster, the annual survey that it posted yesterday. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz made the Top Ten this year, clocking in at No. 8, along with a lot of other tech-savvy women in Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
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