May 2010
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Google Snags Palm WebOS Director... →
Goolgle just snagged the Palm WebOS Director. What does this mean for #HP’s big plans now?
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US regulators eye HPCom trade surge →
The evening before the HP acquisition was announced… “More than 8,000 3Com calls changed hands on November 11, which is 17 times the four-week average.”
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HP's $3 billion purchase of 3Com wins EU approval →
“HP, the world’s biggest technology company by sales, has said it expects to close the deal early in the fiscal second quarter. It has acquired more than 30 companies since 2005.”… Can you say “too big to fail?”
February 2010
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RH Donnelley emerges from bankruptcy as Dex One →
Former EDS CEO Ron Rittenmeyer’s newest company, RH Donnelley, emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on February 1 under the name Dex One Corporation. Note it was announced that he joined the board of RH Donnelley in April 2009.
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Carly Fiorina unleashes 'demon sheep' →
Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina has launched a demonsheep video campaign against California Senate challenger Tom Campbell. This is really bold and is asking for someone to create something creative in response, don’t you think?
January 2010
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HP loses massive DWP contract →
Fujitsu to take over huge destop contract. Was 1 of 2 contracts worth 4.6 billion pounds.
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The Age of Consumer Capitalism →
Great article from the Harvard Business Review. Is the “Maximizing Shareholder Value” model going to be replaced by something less short-sighted?
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Mark Hurd's 2009 Compensation (SEC Filing) →
HP CEO Mark Hurd made $30 Million in compensation in 2009. This is down from 2008 but still $5 Million more than 2007. Less than $22 million away from pulling in $100 Million between 2007-2009!
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Why Carly Fiorina Should NOT be Elected to the... →
Great website with lots of information about “Why Carly Fiorina Should NOT be Elected to the United States Senate”. The fact that this woman can run for public office bothers me on so many levels. We need to stop this woman from being “elected” from this or any other public office!
December 2009
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Before You Buy HP... →
Heres a new Facebook group “Before You Buy HP…”, aiming to create awareness to the many things that are going on at HP.
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HP's Facial Tracking Software Fails to Recognise... →
Story appearing at popular website Mashable about HP’s facial tracking software failing to recognize people with darker skin colors. At last look the story had been tweeted over 500 times and shared on Facebook over 140 times.
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'Racial' webcam →
This story appeared on CNN. Too bad they didn’t expose some of the other things going on at HP under Mark Hurd.
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Mark Hurd 3rd Greediest CEO of 2009 →
Considering what some of the banks have done in the past year, Mark Hurd is in some good (or bad) company. Making #3 of the Greediest CEOs of 2009 at TooMuchOnline
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Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd, you're fired! →
“Dear Mark Hurd:
Effective immediately, consider yourself “fired” from Hewlett Packard in your current capacity as CEO and Chairman of the Board, and in any other form of consultantcy or services that you might expect to perform for or on behalf of HP. As some former employees have found themselves without jobs just prior to the Christmas holidays, we’d like for you to...
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HP Installs Bosnia and Herzegovina Operations and... →
HP adds another government contract. One of the new Best-Shore (off-shore) locations?
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What EDS is telling its people about HP deal →
Here is an online version of Ron Rettenmeyer’s announcement to EDS that it had been bought by HP. Love his line at the end…
We are - and will remain - EDS. Ron Rittenmeyer
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Which Is The Top Tech Company To Work For? →
HP is the 3rd worst Tech company to work for according to a recent survey at Glassdoor.com. Hate to imagine working for numbers 1 or 2!
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HP sell EDS memorabilia →
“California-based Hewlett-Packard bought the Plano company last year. It’s now auctioning off items it no longer needs — like an American flag from Afghanistan and a Presidential Service Award. Some collectibles were part of company’s heart and soul.”
Not sure why they didn’t just put it all up on eBay. As if we didn’t know before that HP didn’t hold any...
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Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things Every... →
If you’ve been wondering what you can do to make a difference. Here are some ideas from Michael Moore.
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America Without a Middle Class →
“Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can’t make the minimum payment on their credit cards. One in eight mortgages is in default or foreclosure. One in eight Americans is on food stamps. More than 120,000 families are filing for bankruptcy every month. The economic crisis has wiped more than $5 trillion from pensions...
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Rio Rancho Welcomes HP Center →
New Mexico governor wellcomes Mark Hurd at opening ceramony of HP facility. $63 Million to build. “The state offered more than $40 million in job training, tax credit incentives and capital outlay money to woo the company. Rio Rancho offered more than $2 million in land and building incentives. “ These taxpayer incentives bring in 1,350 employees by 2013. Could HP have kept another...
November 2009
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HP float Q4 profit on service biz Everything esle... →
HP Services (especially EDS) “helped offset major losses in revenue in just about everything that’s not services, including consumer PCs; enterprise storage and servers; software; and printing.” Anybody else seeing the illusion here?
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HP profit jumps on cost-cutting, service strength →
Lots of articles talking about the last quarter numbers but this at least sheds a little light on them (if even so little)
“Four of HP’s major divisions — PCs, servers, software and printers — each reported big revenue declines from last year, a trend HP has responded to buy buying its way into other, more profitable markets.” Seems all is not well to me.
“HP’s...
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HP strike ballot threatens DWP projects →
Over 1,000 members of the union PCS working on government IT contracts began a strike ballot yesterday. Wonder if they’ll really strike?
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Deeper Analysis of the 3Com Purchase By... →
Hans Meyer looks at the 3Com purchase by HP a little deeper that they Wall Street cheerleaders.
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And Yet Another Bad Citizen Seeks Higher Office →
Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina might have been too busy counting her American dollars to vote. The writer say that Carly is the club president of the “He-Man’s-Bad-Citizens-Who-Think-They-Should-Be-Our-Leaders Club”. Comments are welcome.
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EDS, Y-E-S. COMS? N.O., HPQ! →
“HP buying 3Com isn’t a threat to Cisco. It’s an exercise in diworsification, plain and simple. Make no mistake: HP shareholders will rue the day HP logged on to 3Com.” The author gives Mark Hurd too much credit, but doesn’t think the purchase of 3Com was wise. Comments are accepted.
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HP's 3Com deal could prove to be CEO Mark Hurd's... →
The writer of the article give’s Mark Hurd too much credit but makes the point that the 3Com purchase will be a big test to Mark Hurd’s success. The article does allow comments.
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HP Vs. Cisco: What Does It Mean For Solution... →
A vendor is quoted saying ”We should not be lined up by vendors, but by the unique needs of our customers,” he said. “That is who we serve. We have to embrace the notion that our bread is provided by our customers.”
Article says “solution providers that aren’t careful are likely to be stepped on in that bruising battle between the two.”
The Technology...
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Bill Gates says people get paid too much →
Article uses a Bloomberg article (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aEJdWvrH5oYY) quoting Bill Gates at a recent charity event. Mark Hurd is mentioned briefly in the article at both sites. This one has some comments but the Bloomberg artilce doesn’t seem to allow any.
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Former EDS CEO Dick Brown still on the lamb →
Former EDS CEO Richard H.Brown (Dick Brown) recently got several shares of DuPont stock for serving on their Board. Guess his $30M + golden parachute wasn’t enough!
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Bad IT = Bad CEO? →
In response to Mark Hurd’s now famous Bad IT = Bad CEO, this writer thought Mark’s approach was too simplistic, saying “Consumers are fed up with all the fuss about “world-class performance” and “excellence”, what they are aggressively demanding is recognition, respect, trust, fairness, and honesty - they also recommend that companies be excellent at one...
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HP's 2008 Proxy Statement Filed With the SEC →
Mark V. Hurd is listed with $42,514,524 in total compensation for 2008. Catherine A Lesjak, Randall D. Mott, Vyomesh I. Joshi, R. Todd Bradley, and Ann M. Livermore are also listed as well.
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Tech's 10 worst-rated CEOs, according to their... →
This was published on June 12, 2008, so much of the HP/EDS saga hadn’t unfolded yet, but wow!
Hewlett-Packard chairman, president and CEO Mark Hurd- CEO Approval Rating 59%
An employee’s advice to senior management:
“Stop screwing the employees. Stop reducing benefits every week. Stop saying you plan to invest in research and development when you are actually reducing...
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HP, UMich deal means a "real" future for scanned... →
The deal is significant because old out of print books could now be printed without huge production runs that publishers might not be willing to undertake. With the University of Michigan doing this deal, I’m sure other schools will follow, I just hope that they can give their business to companies that care about something other than greed.
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HP Receives STAR Award for Service Excellence in... →
This is a press release from HP that has been picked up and ran with by at least one online publication that I’ve seen.
“The Service Excellence in Innovative Support award is presented to a company that has embraced innovation in people, process and technology to increase agent productivity, service levels and customer satisfaction; increase problem avoidance; and effectively handle...
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Wikipedia founder ties with HP to add magazine... →
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announces new tie-up between user-generated information site Wikia and HP’s MagCloud service that will allow users to create and print magazines. HP is determined to print more pages.
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HP faces first ever UK strike action →
“HP faces possible strike action from some of its employees in the UK, after trade union Unite announced a vote among its 150 customer engineers, whose jobs are being shifted to a subsidiary firm.” I wonder what will come out of this?
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America’s most toxic CEO? →
Another insightful article by Damian Saunders. Here are just a couple of points from the article.
“It goes beyond HP, or any previous experience I had with the company, it′s actually an issue that seems endemic in corporate America today, the deliberate undermining of middle and working class standards of living and getting paid obscene amounts to do it. We could, and probably should be...
October 2009
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Global CIO: Why Are Microsoft, Oracle, And HP... →
Seems like there is some IBM envy amongst these guys, especially Mark Hurd?
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Global CIO: Hewlett-Packard's Hurd Says Bad IT... →
“Hurd’s Corolloary: Bad IT = Bad CEO” Isn’t this just an extension of “the buck stops here”? When CEOs and other top management are short-sighted and only really concerned with lining their pockets, is this any surprise?
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Baylor University Name Tennis Building in Honor of... →
Baylor University has just named a tennis building in honor of HP CEO Mark Hurd. Baylor has just lost any respect that I had for them!
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The full extent of executive pay →
According to Busmanagement.com to earn HP CEO Mark Hurd’s $34 million plus earned in 2008 (which is a lower figurer than I’ve seen elsewhere!) it would take…
A worker earning minimum wage 2,256 years to earn
The average worker 836 years to earn
It would take the U.S. President 85 years to earn
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H-P Hurd's Pay Troubling →
johnqworker:
Anyone thinking about buying anything from HP should read this! “While Hurd deserves credit for turning this company around in the early part of his tenure by slashing costs and increasing focus, there are some very troubling aspects about how he, his management team and his board approach executive compensation and governance that suggest investors should steer clear of this...