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Good luck, Meg. You'll need it.
Meg Whitman's experience at eBay may make her seem qualified to lead HP's turnaround. But most tech turnarounds -- when they work -- take several years. And this one is likely to be very difficult.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- Most seasoned executives have their share of career ups and downs. And then there's Meg Whitman.
Whitman presided over eBay's rise from a scrappy startup to an e-commerce giant worth $75 billion MORE
Oct 13, 2011 12:40 PM ET -
Apple was the safest of safe havens last quarter
Up 13.59% in a quarter in which the NASDAQ fell 12.91%
In his Tech Trader Daily column last week, Barron's Tiernan Ray noted that the three months that ended Friday saw some spectacular flameouts in the tech sector, including Netflix (NFLX) down 56.88% for the quarter, AOL (AOL) down 39.58%, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) down 38.32% and Yahoo (YHOO) down 12.4%.
Amid the carnage, however, there were some relatively safe havens. Ray mentioned Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 3, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Today in Tech: How much did Leo Apotheker walk away with?
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* Thanks to an 8K HP (HPQ) filed, we now know ousted CEO Leo Apotheker walked away with almost $10 million in payouts and bonuses. Meanwhile, new company head Meg Whitman will earn $1 -- yes, $1 -- a year, joining former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google execs Larry Page, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 30, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, AOL, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Léo Apotheker, Meg Whitman, Mike Arrington, Twitter -
Today in Tech: Facebook turns profiles into 'Timelines'
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* Facebook unveiled a flurry of new features at yesterday's f8 conference in San Francisco, including "Timelines," a radical re-imagining of the user profile that organizes your activity into a timeline-like format. The new profile (see above) starts rolling out September 29, but if you just can't wait, here's a slightly MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 23, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Daniel Ek, F8, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Léo Apotheker, Meg Whitman, Silicon Valley, Spotify -
Today in Tech: The trouble with HP's CEO
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* HP's (HPQ) board is weighing its options, and one of them includes kicking out CEO Leo Apotheker after barely a year in and replacing him with former eBay boss Meg Whitman. However, Fortune contributor Eleanor Bloxham argues Whitman, who serves as HP's director and a strategic advisor for Kleiner Perkins, may not be MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 22, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, eBay, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, iPhone, Léo Apotheker, LivingSocial, Meg Whitman -
Analyst: RIM's PlayBook to go the way of HP's TouchPad
Sony's tablet could be the next to stumble, says another
Wall Street's best and brightest are expressing varying degrees of shock at the news Thursday that Research in Motion (RIMM), which delivered 500,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the quarter that ended in May, shipped a dismal 200,000 in the August quarter -- suggesting that most of those first half-million units are still sitting, unsold, on store shelves.
"We believe the PlayBook is MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 16, 2011 10:31 AM ETPosted in: Apple, BlackBerry Playbook, Hewlett-Packard, iPad, J.P. Morgan, Motorola Mobility, PlayBook, Research in Motion, Sony, Tablets, Ticonderoga, TouchPad -
IDC: iPad gained market share in Q2, Android tablets lost
The worldwide tablet market grew 303.8% year over year, and it's mostly Apple's
Since IDC launched its Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker in January, its coverage of the tablet market has been, shall we say, spotty.
Its tracking report for the first quarter of 2011 didn't arrive until July, causing serious confusion among some high-profile tech writers who mistook it for a second-quarter report (see What slowdown in tablet sales?).
IDC's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 15, 2011 9:31 AM ETPosted in: Android, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IDC, iPad, PlayBook, Research in Motion, RIM, Tablets, TouchPad -
Did Apple's shares get singled out for punishment after 2008?
When the company's blistering growth is factored in, it certainly looks that way
Four years ago, before the 2008 recession, Apple (AAPL) was trading at more than 45 times earnings. Today it's trading at less than 15 -- a situation that frustrates investors no end.
A little over a week ago, Dirk Schmidt, a German management consultant writing on one of our favorite blogs -- Horace Dediu's Asymco -- posed an interesting MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 5, 2011 2:59 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Asymco, Dell, Dirk Schmidt, Earnings growth, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Horace Dediu, Microsoft, P/E ratio -
Why would HP make more TouchPads to sell at a loss?
No, they don't plan to produce "one last run" in order to make it up in volume
Can you spot the dissemblance in the announcement posted Monday on Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) The Next Bench blog?
Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand. We don't know exactly when these units will be available or how many we'll get, and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 31, 2011 11:51 AM ETPosted in: Apple, DigiTimes, Hewlett-Packard, HP, iPad, Manufacturing, Public relations, supply chain, Tablets, TouchPad, WebOS -
Today in Tech: Tweeting Hurricane Irene
Fortune's curated selection of the weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day.
* Hurricane Irene came and went, and while many people felt its potent effects, the hurricane-turned-tropical storm also inspired a number of reactions via Twitter, from criticism of TV news anchors in raincoats when Irene was hundreds of miles away to over-the-top screengrabs taken from the disaster flick, The Day MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 29, 2011 3:30 AM ET
