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HP decides to keep its PC division

...part of the company". The idea of selling or spinning off the PC division had been floated by Léo Apotheker, who was very quickly... Read more

27 October, 2011

Will Samsung buy HP's PC division

...Reporting the news last week (see HP kills WebOS, may sell off PC division), I quoted HP saying that "its board of directors has authorized... Read more

22 August, 2011

HP kills WebOS, may sell off PC division

Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest IT company, announced moderate financial results tonight -- quarterly turnover up... Read more

18 August, 2011

HP quarterly earnings plunge as PC confusion bites

...based devices and the now-reversed plan to separate off HP's PC division Read more

22 November, 2011 by Ben Woods

HP's exit from PCs? Dodgy for them but good news for us, says Michael Dell

Dell founder thinks spinning off the PC division could damage sales in other parts of HP's business… Dell... Read more

15 September, 2011 by Nick Heath

UK PC market grows as Western Europe declines

...followed by Acer, Toshiba, and Lenovo. Lenovo -- which combines the former IBM PC division with China's Great Wall and now Germany's Medion -- enjoyed... Read more

11 May, 2012

Ex-Acer boss will run Europe for Lenovo

...overstocked". Lenovo leads the enterprise PC market, having taken over IBM's PC division in December 2004. It is still expanding in the consumer business... Read more

2 April, 2012

Lenovo passes Dell to become No 2 in PCs, says iSuppli

...become China's leading PC supplier, and IBM's once table-topping PC division, which Legend purchased. Legend already manufactured PCs for IBM, and Lenovo... Read more

1 December, 2011

Talking tablets, and more, with Lenovo

...to HP's ongoing internal debate about whether to spin off its PC division. However, rather than spend time gloating over the opposition's "missteps... Read more

19 October, 2011
Dell prepares to walk the tightrope

Dell prepares to walk the tightrope

Dell is preparing to change as a company, becoming more like IBM and less hardware-driven as it seeks to gain a greater share of the enterprise market, but the ambitious strategy is a risky one Read more

14 October, 2011 by Jack Clark

Dell takes a swipe at HP

...his company's chief rival HP which has mulled spinning off its PC division. Dell, chief executive of Dell, said on Tuesday that economies of... Read more

5 October, 2011

Meg Whitman confirmed as boss of HP

Meg Whitman, formerly of eBay, has been confirmed as president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, the... Read more

23 September, 2011

HTC considers mobile OS buy

...handset partners, such as HTC. HP's decision to spin off its PC division and shutter its mobile business, meanwhile, potentially puts its WebOS platform... Read more

13 September, 2011 by Roger Cheng

Samsung not buying; HP not quitting PC business

...for HP's Personal Systems Group -- see Will Samsung buy HP's PC division? -- but there is certainly a "significant disparity in scale": HP sells... Read more

26 August, 2011

Splitting HP's PC business would help sale

...of the point I made yesterday (in Will Samsung buy HP's PC division?) that Samsung was the most likely potential buyer for HP's... Read more

23 August, 2011

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