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Xerox announced today that it would be dropping its hostile takeover bid of HP. The drama began last fall with a flurry of increasingly angry letters between the two companies, and confrontational actions from Xerox, including an attempt to take over the HP board that had rejected its takeover overtures. All that came crashing to […] Continue reading Xerox drops $34B HP takeover bid amid COVID-19 uncertainty
To ward off a hostile takeover bid by Xerox, which is a much smaller company, HP (not to be confused with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a separate public company) is promising its investors billions and billions of dollars. All investors have to do to get the goods is reject the Xerox deal. In a letter to […] Continue reading HP offers its investors billions in shareholder returns to avoid a Xerox tie-up
After the death of Larry Tesler this week, New Atlas takes a brief look back at the invention of those now-ubiquitous computer commands: cut, copy and paste.Continue ReadingCategory: Remarkable People, LifestyleTags: Xerox, History, Software, Computer Continue reading How the invention of cut and paste helped change software forever
Ever since Xerox set its sights on HP last November, the companies have been engaged in an ongoing battle. Xerox would like very much to take over the much larger HP, while the printer giant has so far rejected Xerox’s advances. Today, Xerox decided to sweeten the pot, raising its offer by two dollars per […] Continue reading Xerox sweetens HP offer to $24 per share as take-over drama continues
In Xerox’s latest effort to get HP to bend to its will and combine the two companies, it announced its intent today to try and replace the entire HP Board of Directors at the company’s stockholder’s meeting in April. That would be the same board that unanimously rejected Xerox’s takeover bid. Xerox and HP have […] Continue reading Xerox wants to replace HP board that rejected takeover bid
A PR and marketing provider exposed sensitive data for a raft of big-name companies. Continue reading GE, Dunkin’, Forever 21 Caught Up in Broad Internal Document Leak
Xerox fired the latest volley in the Xerox -HP merger letter wars today. Xerox CEO John Visentin wrote to the HP Board that his company planned to take its $33.5 billion offer directly to HP shareholders. He began his letter with hostile tone befitting a hostile takeover attempt, stating that their refusal to negotiate defied […] Continue reading Xerox tells HP it will bring takeover bid directly to shareholders
When, in late July, Armis researchers revealed the existence of the so-called Urgent11 vulnerabilities in Wind River’s VxWorks real-time operating system, they noted that RTOS offerings by other vendors may also be vulnerable. As it turns out, th… Continue reading Urgent11 flaws affect more medical, industrial devices than previously thought
There are many ways to compromise company data, but IT teams often overlook one of the most serious: the humble printer. Continue reading Serious flaws in six printer brands discovered, fixed
A raft of bugs in six popular models can allow a hacker to wreak havoc on a corporate network. Continue reading DEF CON 2019: 35 Bugs in Office Printers Offer Hackers an Open Door