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Report: H-P bolsters defenses, hires Goldman Sachs

(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard is beefing up its defenses in an effort to fend off activist investors who, with enough shares, could demand drastic changes at the company, according to a published report.

Hewlett-Packard puts Bradley in strategy role

Todd Bradley, the head of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s printing and personal computer business, has been appointed to a new position in charge of the company's strategy with a focus on China, the company said Tuesday.

Mulling Meg Whitman: HP considers CEO shakeup

(AP) -- As trial balloons go, Hewlett-Packard's not-so-secret handwringing -over whether to dump CEO Leo Apotheker and replace him with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman- was a success. Investors like the idea. News that the company's ...

Whitman says Apple could overtake HP in 2012: report

Apple could overtake Hewlett-Packard next year as the world's top personal computer maker, HP's chief executive Meg Whitman said in an interview with a French daily to appear on Wednesday.

Deloitte denies HP claim on audit missteps

The audit and consulting firm Deloitte on Wednesday rejected claims by US tech giant Hewlett-Packard that it missed "accounting improprieties" at the British firm Autonomy ahead of a takeover.

Economists examine gender disparity in CEO ranks

(Phys.org)—Women are reaching the upper echelons of business in record numbers—Marissa Mayer at Yahoo!, Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard, Ginni Rometty at IBM and Rosalind Brewer at Sam's Club, to name a few. Even so, women ...

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