How Is the Itanium Lawsuit Hurting HP? Let Us Count the Billions of Ways.

Yesterday’s document dump by Oracle shines a light on just how profitable the HP’s Itanium business is. Or rather, was.
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Exclusive: Hewlett-Packard Shakes Up Enterprise Group. We Got Your Memo.

New group almost the same as the old. Enterprise head Dave Donatelli streamlines his sales team and names a batch of senior VPs to head the new group.
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HP Confirms Printer and PC Combination, Creates New Enterprise Group

HP’s reorganization is bigger than just combining PCs and printers. Say hello to the new $58 billion Enterprise group.
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Seven Questions for Bill Veghte, Hewlett-Packard’s New Chief Strategy Officer

Meet the 20-year Microsoft veteran who’s now in charge of steering HP’s strategic vision.
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Five Questions for HP’s New CEO Meg Whitman and Chairman Ray Lane

Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO Meg Whitman and Chairman Ray Lane talk about the road ahead for one of the world’s biggest technology companies.
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Sterne Agee’s Shaw Wu Likes the Look of the Newly Streamlined HP

With HP shares trading at at their lowest level in about two years, yesterday’s shakeup within the ranks of its senior management will be seen as an important step in Léo Apotheker’s remaking of the company. One analyst sees a buying opportunity.
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HP’s Big Shakeup: Bocian and Mott Out; Livermore Steps Down, Joins Board

As we reported, Peter Bocian, chief administrative officer, is out, but so is CIO Randy Mott. Meanwhile, Ann Livermore is stepping down from her day-to-day duties and joining the board of directors.
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HP’s Own CEO Candidates Unlikely to Seek Freedom After Passover

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?

HP, Dell in Bidding War for 3Par

Mark Hurd’s unexpected departure from Hewlett-Packard earlier this month may have shaken the company a bit, but it hasn’t clouded its strategic objectives. HP this morning made a $1.6 billion bid to buy 3Par, just a week after Dell agreed to buy the data-storage provider for $1.15 billion.
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HP to Acquire 3Com in Dig at Cisco

Another big acquisition for Silicon Valley. Hewlett-Packard said Thursday said it would acquire networking gear outfit 3Com for $2.7 billion, or $7.90 a share. The acquisition, which has been approved by both companies’ boards, will bolster HP’s Ethernet switching offerings and, thanks to 3Com’s routing business, intensify competition with rival Cisco.
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