Reversing the corporate strategy CEO Meg Whitman set three years ago, Hewlett-Packard is set to announce that it will split off its PC and printer business into a separate, publicly traded company, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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HP issues worldwide recall of 50,000 laptop batteries over fire risk
The company said it had received eight reports of those batteries "overheating, melting, or charring." Those reports included property damage and burns.1 3529
Intertec & HP to organise joint seminar on cloud
Intertec Systems and HP are organising a seminar on ‘Step up to the cloud journey’ on 24th September at Ritz Carlton in DIFC from 5.30pm on wards, for Information Technology planners.
Logicom expands portfolio with HP Supplies
Logicom has announced that it will add HP Supplies to its portfolio of products. The distributor will complement its HP Printing Portfolio with the addition of inks and toners, thus strengthening its partner offering and value added proposition.
HP brings water to the supercomputer market
The server uses some new HP-patented techniques to keep water away from the hardware
HP to slash 16,000 more jobs despite PC growth
Hewlett-Packard reported increased profits Thursday as its PC business turned in a strong quarter, but the company will slash thousands more jobs to reduce costs.
Global Distribution extends HP product offering
Global Distribution, an authorised HP Channel Development Partner (CDP) in the United Arab Emirates since last August, has extended its HP Product Offering to foster solutions business in the local reseller community.
malomatia becomes HP’s first MSP in Qatar
According to the company, it will leverage HP’s management software to offer Integrated Managed Service solutions to enterprises in Qatar through a state-of-the-art operations centre currently being built.
HP brings Windows 7 'back by popular demand'
With Windows 8 bearing a good share of the blame for the declining PC market, HP is falling back on Windows 7 for its latest marketing push.
HP launches voice-enabled tablets in India
Hewlett-Packard appears set to re-enter the smartphone market with the launch in India Wednesday of two tablets running the Android OS and offering voice-calling capability.
Dell, Cisco, others hit back after being named in NSA spying toolkit
The world’s largest networking vendors have hit back at claims their products have been compromised by the National Security Agency after being named in an NSA spying toolkit.