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Microsoft snatches HP CRM and service business from rivals Salesforce and Oracle
In what has to be characterized as huge win for Microsoft, it announced this morning it had secured a 6-year deal with HP, Inc to run Microsoft Dynamics’ customer relationship management (CRM) and service software. What’s more, it grabbed this deal at the expense of its rivals. HP, Inc. had been a Salesforce CRM customer, while Oracle had been its service software provider.… Read More
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How far we’ve come: The top 5 retro gadgets from the Vintage Computer Festival
VR in the 90s? Computers with gears? TechCrunch brings you five of the coolest retro gadgets and gizmos from this weekend’s Vintage Computer Festival West XI at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. HP sheds some more light the Omen X VR PC backpack
The Omen X by HP VR PC is nothing if not compelling. The company showed off a picture of the concept earlier today and let slip a smattering of details around the backpack PC but not much else. No press release, no product page. It was a fairly usual announcement for HP.
The hardware company’s VP of Consumer PC & Solutions Mike Nash agreed to shed a bit more light on the upcoming… Read More
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HP unveils a bunch of new Omen gaming hardware
To be fair, an omen isn’t necessarily a portent of negative things. If it was, we wouldn’t feel obligated to qualify it using words like “bad.” Still, the word carries with it some fairly ominous overtones, surely not helped by the 1979 film that carried the title, centering around a young antichrist.
And if HP is attempting to leave things open to interpretation… Read More
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OpenText acquires HP customer experience content management for $170 million
OpenText, the Canadian content management company, announced today that it was buying much of the customer experience content management business from HP Inc, the consumer printer business that emerged after the HP split last year. The deal was for approximately $170 million, according to a statement released by OpenText. What’s more OpenText expects the assets to generate… Read More
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HP Sells Network Security Business TippingPoint To Trend Micro For $300M
On the heels of Dell buying EMC for $67 billion and Western Digital buying SanDisk for $19 billion, HP is selling off its TippingPoint network security business to TrendMicro for $300 million. TippingPoint is a provider of next-generation intrusion systems and network security solutions, and HP says that in future it will resell network security services from partners (including… Read More
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Ansible Partners With Cisco, CSC, HP And Rackspace To Make Deploying And Managing OpenStack Easier
Enterprise IT automation service Ansible today announced that it’s partnering with HP, RackSpace, CSC, Cisco and the open source community to help make deploying and managing OpenStack clouds easier. While the open source cloud computing platform is now extremely powerful, few of its users would argue that it is very easy to stand up an OpenStack cloud. Read More
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Who Wins The Battle of The Disrupted Tech Giants: HP Or IBM?
It’s been a rough several years for the once-mighty technology behemoths, HP and IBM, and while each has the cash and resources to chug along for years to come, both companies have struggled to find a foothold in a fast-changing market. HP once represented the archetypal Silicon Valley company, a pillar of the computer world, a place where a teenage Steve Jobs worked one summer and cut… Read More
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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: HP Sprout, New Fitbits, And Other Wrist-Worn Tech
Fitbit announced a few new devices, including the Fitbit Charge and the Fitbit Surge, both of which we’re excited about. Plus, HP is doing all kinds of weird things, not least of which is the announcement of an odd new computer, projector type device called the Sprout.
Plus, we’re still fascinated with the Apple Watch so we’re talking about all things wrist this week. Read More
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HP Pops 4.7%, Picks Up More Than $3B In Market Cap On Breakup News
Unlock that value.
Following news and confirmation that HP will separate itself into two separate, public entities, investors sent its shares soaring more than 5 percent, to $36.87, at the end of regular trading. That’s a market cap gain of around $3 billion.
Investors are enthused that the company is working to unlock whatever value may have been hidden inside of the conglomerated firm. Read More
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