Hewlett-Packard Co Chief Executive Leo Apotheker, outlining his vision for the company, promised to boost earnings and dividends sharply in coming years as it pushes aggressively into cloud computing.
HP is looking to move in a new direction by parting ways with Mark Hurd's supporters on its board of directors.
Wall Street was set for a higher open on Friday after two days of declines as strong earnings from General Electric and Google boosted investor optimism.
Stock index futures rose on Friday after two days of declines as strong earnings from General Electric and Google boosted investor optimism.
Hewlett-Packard Co on Thursday said four directors are leaving, as a company shake-up continues under new Chief Executive Leo Apotheker.
Hewlett-Packard is making big changes to its board of directors, naming five new members and losing four.
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Craigslist's chief executive told a court on Monday that an executive with eBay, a minority shareholder, warned him to improve relations with eBay's then-CEO Meg Whitman because she could be a monster and an Evil Meg when frustrated.
Craigslist's chief executive said on Friday he was so alarmed by a condescending attempt by his counterpart at eBay to reassure him about their relations that he started maneuvering to remove the online auctioneer from his board of directors.
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark told a Delaware court on Friday he did not voice his objections to shareholder eBay Inc when the online giant launched a rival classifieds business.
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark said he had never visited eBay Inc's rival classified ad site, which is the center of a bitter legal fight between the two companies.
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark testified on Thursday he decided to trust eBay Inc after a key 2004 meeting in which then-CEO Meg Whitman and other executives said the Internet giant shared the small private company's core values.
An eBay Inc executive said on Thursday the auction company bought a stake in Craigslist partly to block rival web company Google Inc from acquiring the classified ads business.
Emails from a top eBay Inc executive showed the Internet giant was aware that a competing online classifieds site it launched while sitting on the board of Craigslist was a sensitive issue to be handled delicately, according to court testimony on Tuesday.
EBay Inc's former chief executive, Meg Whitman, took the witness stand on Monday to make the case online classifieds site Craigslist unfairly cut eBay's stake in the company.
It's a story fraught with accusations of broken promises, backroom deals and deception, leaving an established Internet giant fighting to preserve its valuable stake in a well-loved classified advertising website.
It's a story fraught with accusations of broken promises, backroom deals and deception, leaving an established Internet giant fighting to preserve its valuable stake in a well-loved classified advertising website.
Former Hewlett-Packard Co chief and Silicon Valley star Carly Fiorina said on Wednesday that she would run as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from California, taking on liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer.
EBay Inc shrugged off speculation on Thursday that its planned spinoff of Skype could be in danger, given an ongoing dispute over the technology used in the online telephone unit and new plans to develop proprietary software.
eBay plans to spin off its Skype unit, acknowledging that the Web telephone service does not fit with the rest of the company, in an indictment of former CEO Meg Whitman's acquisition strategy.
EBay Inc plans to spin off its Skype unit, acknowledging that the Web telephone service does not fit with the rest of the company, in an indictment of former CEO Meg Whitman's acquisition strategy.
