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• HP to cut 27,000 jobs

  Co. is cutting 27,000 jobs in an effort to recover from management missteps that hobbled the Silicon Valley pioneer as its rivals raced ahead with more innovative products and services.The streamlining announced Wednesday represents HP's largest payroll purge   Read more »

• Facebook stock falls flat in public debut

  closing price means Facebook is worth about $105 billion, more than Amazon.com , McDonalds and storied Silicon Valley icons Hewlett-Packard and Cisco.But as many people looked for a big first-day pop in Facebook's share price, the single-digit increase was   Read more »

• Reports: HP will cut up to 30,000 jobs

  FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday.The looming cuts   Read more »

• Hewlett-Packard combining printing, PC divisions

  Co. says it will combine its printing and PC divisions to save money, part of the technology company's effort to turn around its business. The move comes at a time when sales of printers and ink, once HP's lifeblood, are falling amid declining demand and growing   Read more »

• Microsoft's future riding on Windows 8

  increasingly irrelevant."If Windows 8 is a hit, it could also help lift the fortunes of struggling PC makers, including Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. Besides giving businesses and consumers a reason to consider new PC purchases, Windows 8 is expected to   Read more »

Around the web

• Hewlett-Packard Divorces Traditional Power Grids

  by means of a verification and reporting module, so as to make sure that similar mistakes will not be made in the future. Hewlett-Packard's Net-Zero Energy Data Center strikes us as a more than welcomed endeavor, seeing how the issue of natural resources management 3:16 AM from Softpedia Read more »

• Livermore Set to Be First Witness in HP-Oracle Trial

  Livermore, a member of Hewlett-Packard's board of directors and a longtime head of the company's enterprise business, will be the first witness called when a court in San Jose, California, hears HP's lawsuit against Oracle for ending future development on 5/31/12 from PC World Read more »

• Microsoft seems ready for fall debut of Windows 8

  is all but finished. The next stage is "release to manufacturing," when Microsoft hands the code to PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ ), Dell and Lenovo to install on new PCs, laptops and tablets. Based on the timeline for Windows 7 three years ago, 5/31/12 from SiliconValley.com Read more »

• BASF SE, Berkshire Hathaway, Commonwealth Bank of Australia Among Five Stocks Added to Dow Jones Global Titans 50 INDEX

  Inc. (United States). Companies exiting are Allianz SE (Germany), BNP Paribas S.A. (France), E.ON AG (Germany), Hewlett-Packard Co. (United States) and Petroleo Brasileiro S/A Pref (Brazil). The total free-float market capitalization of the reconstituted index 5/31/12 from Bloomberg.com Read more »

• It's unclear whether Hewlett-Packard's announced layoffs will affect local employees

  A neighbor of mine who works at the East Pennsboro HP location told me last week that 6 people were laid off at that location on his account alone in the past month. Apparently, there is more than one account at that location, so I'm not aware of the total 5/31/12 from PennLive.com Read more »