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Can’t Buy Me Love … But You Can Buy Me Gadgets

Lauren Goode in Commerce on February 8 at 12:54 pm PT

What better way to show your affection than with obscure tablets and daily deals?

AMD Sales Chief Ghilardi Leaves

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 7 at 2:34 pm PT

Another shake-up in the top ranks for chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices.

Oracle to Court: Let’s Try SAP Again

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 7 at 1:50 am PT

Unhappy with a judge’s ruling that slashed a judgement from $1.3 billion to $272 million, Oracle says it wants a new copyright infringement trial against rival SAP.

HP CEO Whitman Earned One Dollar Plus $16 Million in 2011

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 3 at 7:27 am PT

CEO Meg Whitman may have taken only a one-dollar salary upon taking the job. But her stock-based compensation totaled more than $16 million last year.

Dell Taps Former CA Head Swainson to Run Software Unit

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 2 at 1:14 pm PT

Meanwhile, he turned down a nearly identical job offer from Hewlett-Packard.

Yet Another Departure From HP’s webOS Business

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 31 at 9:51 am PT

Brian Hernacki, chief architect of HP’s webOS business, is just the latest from that group to head for the exits.

Filing: Without Itanium Chip, HP Is “Strategically Screwed”

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 31 at 7:00 am PT

But in HP’s view, Oracle sought to blow up its rival’s Business Critical Server business and lure customers to its Sun servers.

Another Director Out at Hewlett-Packard: It’s Lawrence Babbio

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 30 at 1:16 pm PT

Another director leaves the technology giant.

Rubinstein Interview: With webOS Transition Under Way, It Was Time to Leave HP

John Paczkowski in News on January 27 at 10:22 am PT

On the heels of the news of his departure from HP Friday, Apple veteran and onetime Palm head Jon Rubinstein spoke with AllThingsD about the move and the fate of Palm’s webOS.

News Byte

HP’s Discontinued TouchPad Sells Out … Again

Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 27 at 9:08 am PT

It’s been called the tablet that just won’t die: After refurbished Hewlett-Packard TouchPads became available for a discount on Woot.com, the 16 gigabyte model — which was being sold for $169.99 — is apparently sold out again, The Verge writes. Earlier this week, HP published a road map for open source development on webOS, the mobile operating system behind the TouchPad, six weeks after the company first said it was opening up the OS to the developer community.