Meggy Scissorhands

[marmar]

SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard Co. is planning to cut about 2,000 more jobs than it had previously announced as CEO Meg Whitman tries to turn the company around.

In a regulatory filing Monday, the computer and printer maker said it will eliminate 29,000 jobs by October 2014, up from the 27,000 cuts it announced in May when HP employed about 350,000 people.

The company, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif., didn't explain why it had raised the number. The revision comes amid signs that the already slumping personal computer market may weaken even further as an increasing number of sleek smartphones and tablet computers win over consumers.

The shift to mobile devices has hurt HP, the world's largest maker of PCs. HP is preparing to release a new line of tablets this fall and has been trying to diversify into more profitable lines of technology, such as business software and consulting, but Whitman has cautioned it will take several years for the company to bounce back from a litany of problems, including a lack of innovation and acquisitions that haven't panned out. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/finance/20120910/US.Hewlett.Packard.Job.Cuts/

[xchrom]

1. amazing. simply amazing that an idiot like that manages to pull down the salary she does --

while so many others -- who could do a way better job than she does -- struggle so.

the Peter Principle married Cony Capitalism and gave birth to this.

[Downwinder]

2. Another challenger for IBM.

Been a number of them bit the dust.