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...J: court stops the music for the ‘Texas two-step’ (Lex)...
...Treadwell becomes the focus for this jukebox musical and, as played by British soul and R&B singer Beverley Knight, she’s a force of nature....
...Great carmakers have failed before (Oldsmobile, Packard, and many more). The carmakers that don’t look to the future may become historical footnotes soon. David J Melvin Chester, NJ, US...
...The record for a single race came last year when J.B. Pritzker, the heir to the Hyatt franchise, spent $161.5m to win the Illinois governorship....
...Find new partners: with Argos now part of J Sainsbury, those concessions will not be returning to Homebase stores....
...Meg Whitman, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard and a former Republican gubernatorial candidate in California, announced she will vote for Mrs Clinton and raise money for her....
...Hewlett-Packard’s botched takeover of Autonomy, the British software company, was the subject of such action as investors argued that shareholder value had been harmed as a result of the ill-fated deal....
...In August 2011, Hewlett-Packard announces it will pay $11.1bn for Autonomy, a UK software maker. HP’s stock tanks....
...Hewlett-Packard’s $11bn acquisition of Autonomy is already a business school case study on how not to do mergers and acquisitions. The academics just got more material....
...Mizuho Securities, a Japanese brokerage, in 2005 accidentally issued an order to sell 610,000 shares of J-Com, a recruitment company, for Y1 each....
...Hewlett-Packard considered pulling out of its disastrous $11bn acquisition of Autonomy before the deal closed, court documents have revealed....
...Horatia Harrod Crime Dodgers, by Bill Beverly, No Exit Press, RRP£14.99/Crown, RRP$26 Beverley’s road trip from hell has quickly acquired a cult following....
...Ray Ozzie, the former top software strategist at Microsoft, has signed on as a director at Hewlett-Packard as the US technology company seeks to rebuild its board in the wake of the Autonomy debacle....
...If a well known brand is only as good as its next product, an upstart can mount a challenge with a better one – as Asus laptops did when they took on Dell and Hewlett-Packard....
...The company’s factories in mainland China churn out a large portion of Apple’s new iPhones, as well as electronics for companies such as Sony, Hewlett-Packard and Dell....
...Walking in to Hewlett-Packard’s annual meeting in 2010, the board’s nine non-employee members looked back on a year in which they were paid, on average, $91,000 in cash for their wisdom....
...Hewlett-Packard’s chairman and its longest-serving directors resigned from their positions on Thursday in a delayed reaction to last year’s disastrous $8.8bn writedown relating to the company’s $11bn acquisition...
...“My view about the board of directors is that they are helping turn Hewlett-Packard round,” Ms Whitman said in their defence at the annual meeting....
...For owners of the best performing stock in the Dow Jones index of blue-chip companies this year, shareholders in Hewlett-Packard are remarkably unhappy with its directors....
...Hewlett-Packard, the world’s biggest PC maker by unit sales, suffered a shareholder protest vote at its annual meeting on Wednesday, but its chairman and members of the board survived calls for their removal...
...When Ray Lane stepped down as chairman of Hewlett-Packard this month, making way for the activist investor Ralph Whitworth, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System was a strong presence in backroom...
...An influential proxy advisory firm has urged Hewlett-Packard shareholders to vote against the re-election of Ray Lane, the chairman, and two other directors, over their handling of its Autonomy acquisition...
...(Wall Street Journal)(Bloomberg) Autonomy deal takes toll at HP: “Hewlett-Packard’s chairman and its longest-serving directors resigned from their positions on Thursday in a delayed reaction to last year...
...The risk for Microsoft is that it antagonises other partners, such as Hewlett-Packard, with its move....
...company has evolved from an industrial conglomerate with roots in ironwork and shipbuilding into a producer of wireless and electronic products for customers that include Cisco, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard...
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