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HP reports strong third quarter
News HP chairman and CEO Mark Hurd batted away reporters' repeated questions about whether he saw any weakening demand for PCs in the US or globally, saying: "We didn't see much of a change from Q2 to Q3. The US accounts for roughly 30 per cent of HP's... [20 Aug 2008]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Mark Hurd HP Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the vote in his favour. [04 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News Mark Hurd HP Mark Zuckerberg Facebook It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he is. Perhaps it comes from his background as an engineer rather than a sales or marketing director that he likes to get down to... [01 Aug 2008]
HP seals $13.9bn deal for EDS
News Mark Hurd, HP's chairman and CEO, said in a statement: "The combination of HP and EDS will create a leading force in global IT services. HP plans that EDS will continue to be led after the deal closes by EDS chairman, president and CEO Ronald... [13 May 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Mark Hurd Mark Zuckerberg BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe. [08 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Mark Hurd Mark Zuckerberg and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for... [26 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Mark Hurd HP Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of... [03 Mar 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Mark Hurd HP Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies in... [01 Feb 2008]
Mark Hurd on HP Integrity Momentum: Common Vision for IT Infrastructure
White Paper This webcast explains how using a standards-based architecture with the capabilities of a mainframe produces better return on investments and helps to make better business decisions. [14 Dec 2007]
AMD in the Enterprise: Mark Hurd, HP President & CEO
White Paper The attendee of this webcast will learn about the importance of standardizing and automating the data center to lower costs, improve use, assure availability and manage everything with fewer people. [14 Dec 2007]
Special Event Replay: CEOs Take Enterprise Computing Head On
White Paper The presenters of this webcast, HP CEO Mark Hurd, and Intel CEO Paul Otellini - along with a special message from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison - and author Geoffrey Moore as moderator, present their views on enterprise computing. [14 Dec 2007]
CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT
News Mark Hurd Mark Zuckerberg This week we hear from Mark Beattie, head of IT for waste management company LondonWaste. Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven... [11 Dec 2007]
Oracle users demand better support
News Mark Hurd HP Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere. What we want to do with Oracle is identify the issues. [10 Dec 2007]
Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year
News Mark Hurd Mark Zuckerberg The head of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme will step down from his role in charge of the project at the end of this year. NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to leave his role in charge of the National... [05 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Mark Hurd HP Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction of the computer industry". Apple's launch of the Apple II in 1977 "kicked off the PC era", wrote Fortune... [29 Nov 2007]
