HP’s Q2 Earnings Beat Expectations on Weak Sales

Better profits, weaker sales.
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Amid Tech Slowdown, HP CEO Whitman Under Pressure to Show Progress

Worries that success seen last quarter was a fluke.
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HP Faces Trouble on Every Side Ahead of Earnings Report

After so much bad news from competitors, it’s hard to be optimistic.
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Dell Set to Report a Big Earnings Miss Today

A tough day ahead.
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John Chambers Says Cisco Systems Is “Tough to Beat”

Slow and steady wins the race.
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HP Says It Hasn’t Tried to Sell Autonomy to SAP

HP is still not interested in selling.
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Former HP Exec Shane Robison Named CEO of Fusion-io

An unexpected shake-up.
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Jon Rubinstein Joins Board of Qualcomm, as Mobile Chipmaker Ups Its Silicon Valley Cred

The longtime mobile exec is a high-profile appointment.
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News Byte

Fusion-io Names Pankaj Mehra as New CTO

Fusion-io today named Pankaj Mehra as its new chief technology officer. Mehra has been an adviser to the company’s prior CTO, Neil Carson, in recent months. He is a former distinguished technologist at Hewlett-Packard, and also ran HP Labs Russia. He got to HP by way of its 2002 acquisition of Compaq, where he had worked on persistent-memory technology.

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