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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s biggest personal-computer maker, reaffirmed its plan to produce a tablet device with Microsoft Corp.’s Windows, saying it will come out this year. The company continues to work with Microsoft on the project even as it develops devices using its newly acquired Palm operating system, Todd Bradley, a vice president at HP, [...]
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO — The rise of smart phones has presented Hewlett-Packard Co. with a problem. For years, HP has relied on the sale of its printer ink to supply a big piece of the company’s profits. Smart phones are a challenge because they’re by design not connected to printers, and with people reading more of [...]
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
May 26 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. said they’re investigating working conditions at Taiwan’s Hon Hai Group after a mounting number of suicides at their contract manufacturer. Apple is “saddened and upset” by the suicides and has a team evaluating Hon Hai’s countermeasures, said Steve Dowling, a spokesman at the Cupertino, [...]
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
(Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co is preparing a broad push to make it easier to print images and information from the Internet, building an iPhone-style apps market in the process, the head of the company’s imaging group said on Wednesday. HP late last year introduced its first Web-connected home printer, which has a touch screen, which [...]
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
The U.S. has joined German and Russian authorities in investigating whether Hewlett-Packard Co. executives paid millions of dollars in bribes to Russian officials to win a contract in Russia, according to people familiar with the matter. The U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating whether H-P committed any violations of the Foreign [...]