HP Fares Well in Much of Asia
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Upbeat earnings from U.S. computer  company Hewlett-Packard drove an index of Asian stocks outside  of Japan toward a 5-year high, but the dollar's weakness  against the yen pressured shares in Japanese exporters.
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By Jordan Robertson Associated Press  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Hewlett-Packard, the world&#39;s No. 2 PC maker, said Friday it has launched a $483 (3,999 yuan) computer in China, turning up the heat in the intensely competitive market.
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HP Middle East leads the large format printing (LFP) market in the Middle East with 73% market share (according to latest IDC figures) and this is due to the ever-growing demand for graphics and outdoor/indoor media across the region.
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TechWeb - Hewlett-Packard was tops in shipments and IBM in sales in the third quarter, says Gartner.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) expects fiscal 2008 to be another solid financial year as the company continues to fine-tune its cost structure in an attempt to become more operationally efficient.
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HONG KONG - Hewlett-Packard Co., the world&#39;s number-two PC maker, said on Friday it has launched a 3,999 yuan ($483) computer in China, turning up the heat in the intensely competitive market.
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By Ahmad Faiz  HEWLETT-PACKARD refers to its recent launch event in China as the Big Bang. And rightly so. With over 70 printing and imaging products, nothing else quite describes it.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. , the  world's No. 2 personal computer maker, reported on Wednesday a  forecast-beating profit on sales growth across its main  divisions and unveiled a record $6 billion share buyback.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON SAN FRANCISCO - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s first-quarter profit jumped 26 percent as the company benefited from higher sales of laptop computers, printers and printing supplies during a robust holiday spending season.
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AUGUST 17, 2004  - This can&#39;t be an easy time for Ann Livermore. When Hewlett-Packard Co. missed Wall Street&#39;s earnings expectations late last week, the blame was placed squarely on the shoulders of the Enterprise Servers and Storage Group, ...
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The computer maker is pulling further ahead of second-place rival Hewlett-Packard, according to new third-quarter shipment figures.
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Hewlett-Packard again reported huge gains, mostly because of its flexibility in being able to focus on geographic regions that show the biggest strength, analysts say.
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Just five months after its &#36;19 billion acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. gave Hewlett-Packard Co. the No. 1 ranking in worldwide personal computer shipments, a new batch of market numbers delivered some stomach-turning news to HP &amp;#151; rival Dell Inc. had just snatched the top spot right back.
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HP has passed IBM in the number of supercomputers in operation and enjoys the largest market share.
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The world&#39;s number-two PC maker Hewlett-Packard has lowed PC prices in China with the lowest price at 4,000 yuan or 480 US dollars, seen as a response to the recent Lenovo-IBM deal.
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(InfoWorld) - Heading toward the end of a better-than-expected year for IT, the good news this week was that there were no big surprises when Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, and Advanced Micro Devices laid out strategies at investor and analyst conferences. While IT product prices, especially in hardware sectors like chips and some types of networking equipment, have been under pressure, tech vendor sales have been strong generally. The Nasdaq Composite Index, home to a broad range of publicly traded IT companies, crossed 2400 in November and has remained at that level, after opening the year at 2244. Tuesday's U.S. Federal Reserve decision to leave rates unchanged, and a much better-than-expected report on retail sales Wednesday stoked markets overall. On Thursday the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new intraday high of 12427.17, and the Nasdaq surged by 21.44 points to close at 2453.85. AMD gave assurancesÂ Thursday at an analyst meeting in New York that its $5.4 billion merger with graphics chip maker ATI will result in greater-than-expected cost savings in 2007, and $80 million to $160 million in incremental revenue. This caused AMD shares to jump by $2.54 to close at $22.71. The company also stressed that it expects a revenue boost from Microsoft's Vista OS release. The company in OctoberÂ announced fourth quarter resultsÂ that beat analyst estimates, but there were concerns about profit margins. The challenge for AMD is to keep a lid on costs and continue to successfully challenge Intel, especially with quad-core products in 2007. At HP's meeting in New York Tuesday, Chief Financial Officer Robert Wayman said thatÂ the company is forecastingÂ fiscal 2008 revenue between $101 billion and $103 billion. The high side of that is slightly higher than the consensus analyst forecast of $102 billion, according to Thomson First Call. It was reassuring but not exciting, at the tail end of a great year from HP (despite theÂ board spying scandalÂ that cost Chairman Patricia Dunn her job in September). The day of the analyst meeting, HP shares (HPQ) closed at $39.83, down by $0.18. But HP's announcement with MicrosoftÂ on WednesdayÂ helped spark investor interest. The deal calls for the companies to work on a range of business software products to the enterprise market, including business intelligence software. HP closed Thursday at $39.91, up $0.19 for the day. At Cisco's C-Scape conference for analysts this week in San Jose, California the company stressed themes that it had hit earlier this year. The company says it will sustain double-digit growth through the rest of the decade by incorporating data, voice, video and mobile capabilities -- its "quadruple play" -- across product lines. This week, the companyÂ focused on the consumer sideÂ of the equation, spotlighting itsÂ merger with set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta, and also its Linksys consumer gear. Cisco plans to maintain its stronghold in the enterprise while continuing to grow in the consumer market. By the second day of the conference, Cisco shares (CSCO) were up $0.14 from its close Monday. In the current upbeat climate, reassurances from IT heavyweights about the next few quarters could be enough to boost IT investor confidence into the new year.