Robert McGarvey writes that HP has paid $80 million over the years in severance pay, stock options, and so on to fired CEOs Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd, and Leo Apothekar. Meanwhile, Eric Jackson calls the HP board pathetic, and I agree. It would have been better to spend the $80 mil to flood the market [...]
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Meg Whitman, former CEO of EBay, and fresh off a failed gubernatorial bid in California, is set to become CEO of HP, which just fired Léo Apotheker. Apotheker is the one responsible for the disastrous (in my opinion) decision to drop WebOS and HP’s entire hardware business. Whitman was behind the purchase of Skype for [...]
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Breaking- HP seems to be exiting the hardware business (tablet, phone, and PC). So what’s left? Software? I knew about some management software they have (OpenView), but is that enough to sustain the company? And does this have anything to do with Google’s purchase of Motorola? I.e., now they know they can’t compete? I’ll post [...]
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It had to happen some time, I suppose. Digital photo frames, which up until now have just been limited to displaying photos from your USB flash drive, have not only Wi-Fi, but are also doing something with that Wi-Fi. The new generation of digital photo frames are social networking-enabled. They’ll download and display photos from [...]
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