Hewlett-Packard Company
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Weekly jobless claims fall 12,000 to 502,000 - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 11 days 19 hours 15 minutes ago
That's the fewest initial claims since early January. Initial jobless claims have hovered above 500,000 for 52 straight weeks, as the unemployment rate has climbed to a 26-year high of 10.2%.
Hewlett Packard agrees to buy 3Com for about $2.7 billion in cash -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) | 12 days 11 hours 16 minutes ago
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co. says it has agreed to buy networking software and equipment maker 3Com Corp. for about $2.7 billion in cash.
H-P buying more ammo to fight Cisco MarketWatch First Take - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 12 days 10 hours 44 minutes ago
Long-forgotten 3Com, which moved away from Silicon Valley to Marlborough, Mass., has a market cap of about $2.23 billion. Its revenue and profits have been on the decline. H-P appears to be getting the company on the cheap.
Telefonica profit falls 0.6% as Europe drags - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 11 days 23 hours 41 minutes ago
Its profit matched a forecast of analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires.
Hewlett-Packard Sees Growth in '10
TheStreet.com | 10 hours 37 minutes ago
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Hewlett-Packard (HPQ Quote) delivered no surprises Monday, posting earnings and sales numbers in line with previously announced results.
Dragon Capital Group's Subsidiary Receives Commercial Printer Distributor Award From Hewlett Packard of China [Press Release]
MarketWire | 27 days 15 hours 8 minutes ago
SHANGHAI, CHINA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/27/09 -- Dragon Capital Group Corp. (PINKSHEETS: DRGV), a leading holding company of emerging high-tech companies in China, announced today that its subsidiary Shanghai Zhaoli Technology Company, Limited ("Shanghai Zhaoli") has received Hewlett Packard of China's Diamond Level Distributor Award.
Treasurys give up gains after jobless claims fall - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 11 days 19 hours 14 minutes ago
Lanxess net down 59% but CFO is optimistic
Alliant Techsystems posts quarterly profit gain - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 12 days 7 hours 7 minutes ago
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HP Announces Participation in Upcoming Investor Conferences [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 days 11 hours 8 minutes ago
HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced its participation in the following investor conferences, which will be available via live audio webcast:
Weekly jobless claims drop 12,000 to 502,000 - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 11 days 19 hours 14 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The number of people filing initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell by 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 502,000 in the week ended Nov. 7, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Initial jobless claims have hovered above 500,000 for 52 straight weeks. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch expected initial claims to drop to about 510,000. Continuing state claims declined 139,000 to a seasonally adjusted 5.63 million, the lowest since March.
M&A factors into stock market's gains - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 11 days 16 hours 13 minutes ago
H-P's "news should help the Nasdaq in its attempt to catch up to the Dow and S&P, which are in new bull-market rally high territory," said Pado.
UTC sees margin improvement from GE Security deal - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 11 days 16 hours 12 minutes ago
Porsche: Annual pretax loss was $6.6 billion
Lithium Customers Share Best Practices for Lowering Support Costs at Enterprise 2.0 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 19 days 19 hours 8 minutes ago
Lithium Technologies, the leading provider of Social CRM solutions to power the customer network, today announced Lithium customers, Hewlett Packard and Juniper Networks, will speak at the Enterprise 2.0 conference. The track session will cover lowering customer service costs via social solutions to help business managers learn more about how to leverage customer communities with maximum return on investment (ROI).
Dell's report to come amid market-share losses - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 4 days 16 hours 18 minutes ago
The results will also come on the heels of a late-Wednesday report from NPD Group, which said that in October, Dell's U.S. retail PC shipments fell 17% and revenue declined 26% from the same period a year ago. Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Scott Craig said that investors had expected Dell to "cede some [market] share this quarter" in exchange for a focus on profitability.
U.S. stock futures edge lower before Wal-Mart data - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 11 days 22 hours 9 minutes ago
S&P 500 futures fell 2.5 points to 1,093.80 and Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 4.75 points to 1,779.00. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 21 points.
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Company Overview
| Company: | Hewlett-Packard Company |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Personal Computers |
| Website: | http://www.hp.com |
HP wants to be "it" when it comes to IT. Hewlett-Packard provides one of the tech world's most comprehensive portfolios of hardware, software, and services. Its products include PCs, servers, storage devices, printers, and networking equipment. The company's services unit provides IT and business process outsourcing, application development and management, consulting, systems integration, and other technology services. HP's software products include enterprise IT management, information management, business intelligence, and carrier-grade communications applications. The company markets to consumers, businesses, government agencies, and schools in more than 170 countries.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 118,364 (2008) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | 13.5 (2008) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 8,329 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | 14.7 (2008) |
| Number of Employees | 321,000 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 86.6 (2008) |
| Fiscal Year-End | October |