Meg Whitman News

Hewlett-Packard Co. has named Todd Bradley executive vice president for strategic growth, focusing on expansion in China and partnerships around the world as the company works to overcome slumping personal computer sales.

In the early-1990s, after a decade of stagnation and declining revenues, a true leader finally took the reins at IBM .

Women serve as chief executives of many U.S. and overseas companies, with Marissa Mayer and Meg Whitman as two high-profile examples in Silicon Valley.

IBM's Edge event hit Hewlett-Packard in Las Vegas with a one-two punch before the executives at HP Discover even got started.

"The new style of IT," championed by HP CEO Meg Whitman during her keynote at this year's HP Discover conference also requires a new style of Hewlett-Packard as the venerable, but recently troubled company has bolstered its product line and prepared for an enterprise technology metamorphosis based on mobile, big data and cloud computing.

Meg Whitman appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday morning from the HP Discover conference in Las Vegas to discuss the company's recent turnaround and future after a rough couple of years.

Putting the right people at the helm has launched many high profile, highly successful turnarounds, from Jack Welch in his early days at GE to Meg Whitman at eBay.

One of our best of the rest today leading the pack. Meg Whitman hoping HP -- another 4% on the down day for tech overall.

After so many politicians and entertainers have embarrassed themselves by being caught in pathetic, utterly transparent lies, you would think people in the public eye would have learned enough from these past blunders to come up with a different strategy when asked potentially damaging questions.

The inveterate computing giant suffers from the waning PC market like many other sector titans, but that downtrend came at a particularly bad time for this company.

Few politicians speak their minds as plainly as state Treasurer Bill Lockyer, who said he will retire at the end of his term next year after 48 years in a series of elected offices.

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There is so much gold in this Wall Street Journal article about Mitt Romney's future plans that I am already giddy with anticipation : Restless, a little wistful and sharply critical of President Barack Obama's second term, Mr.

Auditors KPMG and Deloitte have been quietly dropped from the legal fight over the acquisition of Autonomy, which puts more onus on the board and Meg Whitman to explain how they missed the alleged fraud that led to an $8.8 billion writedown.

The sudden exit of Procter & Gamble Co's Bob McDonald as chief executive and the return of former CEO A.G. Lafley in his place has raised questions about the vigilance of one of America's highest-profile corporate boards.

EDITOR: It's not just Apple that stashes huge profits overseas to avoid U.S. taxes.

New York City mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis's name will be added to the long list of super-wealthy candidates who lose at the ballot box, Republican rival Joe Lhota predicted Monday as the major mayoral candidates hit the pavement in pursuit of voters at holiday parades.

A few weeks back I had a private lunch with HP CEO Meg Whitman and Chief Communications Officer Henry Gomez.

When you're running a company like Hewlett-Packard, with $120 billion in revenue and operations in more than 100 countries, there's never enough time to get everything accomplished.

Few companies have had more drama in the past few years than Hewlett-Packard . Not only was CEO Mark Hurd fired in 2010 amid a sexual harassment investigation, but his successor, Leo Apotheker, also got the boot just a year later.