Hewlett Packard News

"You thought they were going to miss big and they didn't," Cramer said. He also noted there were a lot of short-sellers in the name who expected some bad numbers because of Dell's recent woes.

U.S. stocks edged down on Thursday but rebounded sharply from their session lows as a rally in Hewlett-Packard's shares offset worries about weak Chinese manufacturing data and the prospects of the Federal Reserve reducing its monetary stimulus.

P CEO Meg Whitman has pulled the company out of the abyss. Her next tasks may be equally daunting.

Thin clients introduced this week by Dell and Hewlett-Packard have faster processor than existing thin clients as well as high-definition graphics capabilities, so they could be alternatives to traditional PCs as computing continues moving to the cloud.

Lenovo Group's bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall in decades.

Hewlett-Packard is introducing a new HP Android tablet hybrid, the SlateBook x2, that's aiming to rival the popular iPad2.

Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new wave of Envy and Pavilion thin and light laptops, including an 11.6-inch touchscreen model priced aggressively at US$399. The lineup includes three TouchSmart laptops with touchscreens and two non-touch laptops.

Pre-Market Movers Hewlett-Packard Company, GameStop Corp, Ocean Rig UDW, Syngenta AG, ExOne Co., Cleantech Solutions International, 3D Systems Corporation, Advanced Micro Devices and Molycorp Inc.

The numbers: They were good. PC maker Hewlett-Packard reported a 32% which helped HP's bottom line.

HP has come up with a creative solution for the desk bound crowd. Its all-new HP ENVY Rove 20 can be carried with you wherever you may want to go.

Hewlett-Packard is moving into the innovative new category of tabletop computing today with the announcement of its HP Envy Rove 20 all-in-one computer.

Hewlett-Packard is unveiling a small army of computers today that will use Intel's next-generation microprocessors, code-named Haswell, for better processing without an increase in power consumption.

On the same day that HP had to admit to lackluster consumer PC sales , the company is announcing a new raft of consumer notebook computers.

A reeling personal computer giant releases earnings, while one company's stock takes a hit off the news of Microsoft's Xbox One.

Hewlett-Packard Co. , the largest personal-computer maker, forecast fiscal third-quarter profit that topped analysts' estimates after the company cut costs to counter slumping demand for desktops and laptops.

Revenue and profits were both down in double figures, but the good news was that they were not down as much as expected by Wall Street analysts.

Today: Tesla repays its federal loan early and Hewlett-Packard avoids a big dip in profit despite personal-computer industry's downfall.

Meg Whitman said it would take five years to turn around Hewlett-Packard. When the computing giant announced quarterly results that exceeded analysts' estimates, she stuck by her plan.

Hewlett-Packard reported a 32 percent drop in profit for its second fiscal quarter, due partly to slower sales of PCs and servers.

Hewlett-Packard, the troubled computing giant that has been trying to turn itself around, reported its second quarter earnings a few minutes ago, and they're a mixed bag: Better than expected on the bottom line , but weaker on the top.