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Word just broke that Mark Hurd, the CEO of HP resigned due to a sexual harassment investigation! Whoa.
…Lesjak has asked to be excluded, and HP declined to answer if Jon Rubinstein was being considered when we asked.
Update: We liveblogged the media call — check it after the break!
Update 2: A quick note from the investor call, which mostly repeated the same info — interim CEO Cathie Lesjak said that although Mark Hurd was a “strong leader, at the end of the day, he didn’t drive our initiatives — it was the organization that supported Mark in driving those initiatives.” Ouch — given Mark’s recent history of saying things like “we didn’t buy Palm to get into the smartphone business,” it certainly seems like he might have been a little disconnected.
3:32PM And that’s it! There’s an investor call coming up, we’ll let you know if we hear anything there.
3:32PM PC Mag: Any litigation here? HP: Nothing has been filed, we have an agreement with Mark in place.
3:32PM Next question (from us!): Will Jon Rubinstein be considered for the CEO position? HP: We’re not identifying any candidates at this time.
3:31PM…
about 1 month ago -
As a tribute to XKCD’s ‘Map of Online Communities’, we have decided to re-create our own, updated version of this map. The numbers are taken to reflect many new developments in the social networking communities, including Facebook surpassing Myspace as the preeminent online community…
…As a tribute to XKCD’s ‘Map of Online Communities’, we have decided to re-create our own, updated version of this map. The numbers are taken to reflect many new developments in the social networking communities, including Facebook surpassing Myspace as the preeminent online community:…
about 1 month ago -
Some 62 Million Light-Years From Earth, One Heck of a Sky Show is Taking Place
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Teens who spend far too much time on the Internet run the risk of developing depression, a new Australian study suggests. Since the 1990s, uncontrolled or unreasonable Internet use has been identified as a problem with signs similar to other addictions, researchers say.
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about 1 month ago -
Being a sideline reporter is a pretty thankless gig. Unwanted advances must come fast and furious, which leads us to the question, “Who else of the sideline crew are the most likely to get hit with these dong messages?” Well, let’s take a look.
…s kind of like that grapefruit. She seems cold, reserved, and a little inhuman, all of which attracts a certain type of fan (read: stalker).
Flashers in the park operate the same way that Michelle Tafoya fans operate. The thrill is exposing themselves to something, rather than what may become of the exposure.
I could see Michelle Tafoya leaving the Linc after an Eagles games, getting into a Town Car, when her phone buzzes. She looks at the picture and says to herself,…
about 1 month ago -
Thinking about God can help relieve anxiety associated with making mistakes.
…Interestingly, atheists reacted differently. When they were
unconsciously primed with God-related ideas, their ACC increased its
activity. The researchers suggest that for religious people, thinking
about God may provide a way of ordering the world and explaining
apparently random events and thus reduce their feelings of distress….
about 1 month ago -
A team of Harvard physicists led by Mikhail D. Lukin has achieved the first-ever quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials.
…Quantum networking applications such as long-distance communication and distributed computing would require the nodes that process and store quantum data in qubits to be connected to one another by entanglement, a state where two different atoms become indelibly linked such that one inherits the properties of the other.
“In quantum computing and quantum communication, a big question has been whether or how it would be possible to actually connect qubits, separated by long distances, to one another,” says Lukin, professor of physics at Harvard and co-author of a paper describing the work in this week’s issue of the journal Nature. “Demonstration of quantum entanglement between a solid-state material and photons is an important advance toward linking qubits together into a quantum network.”
Quantum entanglement has previously been demonstrated only with photons and individual ions or atoms.
“Our work takes this one step further, showing how one can engineer and control the interaction between individual…
about 1 month ago -
Who knew you could rent wives, pets, islands, cell phones, celebrities, and so much more?
…At The Daily Green we’re no strangers to things you should rent instead of buy. Continuing in that spirit (and with a dash of humor), today we take a colorful look at some more bizarre things that you can rent (but may not necessarily want to in some cases). As always, if you do end up renting one of these things, make sure it’s covered by your renters insurance.
Source: Renters Insurance
EMBED THE IMAGE BELOW ON YOUR SITE
Via: Renters Insurance…
about 1 month ago -
As American International Group gears up to announce its latest quarterly performance on Friday, the elephant in the middle of the room is staying put. When will the insurance giant — now a shell of its former self — repay the $102 billion it still owes American taxpayers?
…The government decided to bail out AIG when the company was on the verge of collapse in September 2008. So far, the government has given out $136.5 billion in loans and direct payments, of which AIG (AIG, Fortune 500) still owes $102 billion. AIG rejected a deal earlier this year that could have helped the company cut its debt to taxpayers in half. Two months ago, talks to sell its Asian insurance unit AIA to British insurer Prudential (PUK) collapsed after the two companies haggled over a $30 billion price tag. On Friday, analysts think AIG will likely say it’s on track to raise a significant amount of cash from an initial public offering of AIA in the fall, but they don’t expect AIG to throw out any estimates as to how much it might raise through an IPO.Still, the IPO is clearly plan B for AIG. David Merkel, head of Aleph Investments, a money management firm, said AIG is unlikely to raise any more than $30 billion through an IPO. Merkel used to work for AIG as a life actuary about 20 years ago. The AIA…
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The site of the world’s first atomic attack swarmed with tens of thousands of people Thursday as Hiroshima prepared for a memorial that will for the first time have representatives from the United States and other major nuclear powers.
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US decision to attend Hiroshima memorial hailed
By ERIC TALMADGE
(AP)
12 hours ago
HIROSHIMA, Japan The site of the world’s first atomic attack swarmed with tens of thousands of people Thursday as Hiroshima prepared for a memorial that will for the first time have representatives from the United States and other major nuclear powers.Washington’s decision to attend the 65th anniversary event on Friday has been welcomed by Japan’s government, but has generated complex feelings among some Japanese who see the bombing as unjustified and want the United States to apologize.”Americans think that the bombing was reasonable because it speeded up the end of the war. They try to see it in a positive way,” Naomi Sawa, a 69-year-old former teacher, said after paying her respects to the dead. “But we were devastated.”About 140,000 people were killed or died within months when an American B-29 bombed Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, about 80,000 people died after the United States…
