Arts & Entertainment Life Imitates Art As Hewlett-Packard Hires Flo Rida For Event, Just Like On <i>Silicon Valley</i> Remember when on Episode 4 of Silicon Valley eccentric billionaire Peter Gregory threw a toga party benefit and hired Flo Rida to perform? Well, that just happened in real life last night, in
SF News Breaking: HP Laying Off 27,000 In Massive Cutbacks According to AP reports this afternoon, Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard is slashing 27,000 jobs in an effort to save over $3 billion annually. The huge loss of jobs comes nine months after the
SF News HP Hires Meg Whitman As SFist mentioned yesterday, Hewlett-Packard went ahead and hired former Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman as their new CEO. The HP board went ahead and fired Leo Apotheker after just 11 months on
SF News HP to Hire Meg Whitman? Oh joy, this should be fun. Former gubernatorial candidate and EBay ruler Meg Whitman might (might!) land a new gig as Hewlett-Packard's CEO. The company's board will soon meet to discuss whether or
SF News HP CEO Resigns After Allegations of Sexual Harassment First, Hewlett-Packard had one of the worst CEOs of all time, GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina. And now, according to SFGate, current HP CEO and President Mark Hurd has resigned effective immediately. Why?
SF News Watching You Watching You Watching You Hewlett Packard takes us back to 1981 with the recent revelations that they hired private eyes (clap clap), to watch their board -- they saw their every move. (It is totally time for
SF News Things to Do This Summer: Look for a New Job "Almost every area will be affected across-the-board, but it won't be 10 percent cuts in every department. It'll be in areas where (HP) need to improve their benchmark against competitors...Mark likes to
Arts & Entertainment So That's How they Make Cameron Diaz Ugly Not geeky enough? If your Wednesday (next) is free (SFist has book club, sorry), check out "The Making of Shrek 2" presented by the SF Bay Area Chapter of the ACM. The presentation,
