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On December 31, 2013, HP revised the number of jobs cut from 29,000 to 34,000 up to October 2014. The number of jobs cut until the end of 2013 was 24,600.<ref>{{cite web|last=Moon|first=M.|title=HP woes continue as 5,000 more employees face the axe|url=https://www.engadget.com/2013/12/31/hp-lay-off-5000-employees/|access-date=December 31, 2013|website=engadget|date=December 31, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hardy |first1=Quentin |last2=Gelles |first2=David |title=Hewlett-Packard Is Said to Be Planning a Split of Businesses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/technology/hewlett-packard-is-said-to-be-planning-a-reorganization.html |work= | On December 31, 2013, HP revised the number of jobs cut from 29,000 to 34,000 up to October 2014. The number of jobs cut until the end of 2013 was 24,600.<ref>{{cite web|last=Moon|first=M.|title=HP woes continue as 5,000 more employees face the axe|url=https://www.engadget.com/2013/12/31/hp-lay-off-5000-employees/|access-date=December 31, 2013|website=engadget|date=December 31, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Hardy |first1=Quentin |last2=Gelles |first2=David |title=Hewlett-Packard Is Said to Be Planning a Split of Businesses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/technology/hewlett-packard-is-said-to-be-planning-a-reorganization.html |work=The New York Times |date=October 5, 2014 |access-date=October 6, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/HP-Confirms-Higher-Layoffs-Expected-238285781.html|title=HP Confirms Higher Layoffs Expected|date=December 31, 2013|website=NBC Bay Area}}</ref> At the end of 2013 the company had 317,500 employees. On May 22, 2014, HP announced it would cut a further 11,000 to 16,000 jobs, in addition to the 34,000 announced in 2013. Whitman said: "We are gradually shaping HP into a more nimble, lower-cost, more customer and partner-centric company that can successfully compete across a rapidly changing IT landscape."<ref name="HPjobs">{{cite news|title= Nearly 16,000 jobs are set to go at Hewlett-Packard |url=http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/222273041/scat/c08dd24cec417021/ht/Nearly-16000-jobs-are-set-to-go-at-Hewlett-Packard |work=Big News Network |access-date=May 23, 2014}}</ref> | ||
{{Anchor|THE-MACHINE}} During the June 2014 HP Discover customer event in [[Las Vegas]], Whitman and Martin Fink announced a project for a radically new computer architecture called [[The Machine (computer architecture)|The Machine]]. Based on [[memristor]]s and [[silicon photonics]], it was supposed to come into commercialization before the end of the decade, and represented 75% of the research activity in HP Labs at the time.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/06/12/hp-puts-memristors-heart-new-machine/ |title=HP Puts Memristors At The Heart Of A New Machine |last=Morgan |first=Timothy Prickett |date=June 12, 2014 |work=EnterpriseTech |access-date=December 14, 2014}}</ref> | {{Anchor|THE-MACHINE}} During the June 2014 HP Discover customer event in [[Las Vegas]], Whitman and Martin Fink announced a project for a radically new computer architecture called [[The Machine (computer architecture)|The Machine]]. Based on [[memristor]]s and [[silicon photonics]], it was supposed to come into commercialization before the end of the decade, and represented 75% of the research activity in HP Labs at the time.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/06/12/hp-puts-memristors-heart-new-machine/ |title=HP Puts Memristors At The Heart Of A New Machine |last=Morgan |first=Timothy Prickett |date=June 12, 2014 |work=EnterpriseTech |access-date=December 14, 2014}}</ref> | ||
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{{Main|Hewlett-Packard spying scandal}} | {{Main|Hewlett-Packard spying scandal}} | ||
On September 5, 2006, Shawn Cabalfin and David O'Neil of ''[[Newsweek]]'' wrote that HP's [[general counsel]], at the behest of chairwoman [[Patricia C. Dunn|Patricia Dunn]], contracted a team of independent security experts to investigate board members and several journalists to identify the source of an information leak.<ref>{{cite news|author=David Kaplan|title=Suspicions and Spies in Silicon Valley|work=Newsweek Business|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/45548/|url-status=dead|date=September 17, 2006|access-date=July 22, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911000709/http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2006/09/17/suspicions-and-spies-in-silicon-valley.html|archive-date=September 11, 2012}}</ref> In turn, those security experts recruited private investigators who used [[pretexting]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Krazit |first=Tom |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/faq-the-hp-pretexting-scandal/ |title=FAQ: The HP 'pretexting' scandal |website=ZDNet |date=September 6, 2006}}</ref> which involved investigators impersonating HP board members and nine journalists (including reporters for [[CNET]], '' | On September 5, 2006, Shawn Cabalfin and David O'Neil of ''[[Newsweek]]'' wrote that HP's [[general counsel]], at the behest of chairwoman [[Patricia C. Dunn|Patricia Dunn]], contracted a team of independent security experts to investigate board members and several journalists to identify the source of an information leak.<ref>{{cite news|author=David Kaplan|title=Suspicions and Spies in Silicon Valley|work=Newsweek Business|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/45548/|url-status=dead|date=September 17, 2006|access-date=July 22, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911000709/http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2006/09/17/suspicions-and-spies-in-silicon-valley.html|archive-date=September 11, 2012}}</ref> In turn, those security experts recruited private investigators who used [[pretexting]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Krazit |first=Tom |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/faq-the-hp-pretexting-scandal/ |title=FAQ: The HP 'pretexting' scandal |website=ZDNet |date=September 6, 2006}}</ref> which involved investigators impersonating HP board members and nine journalists (including reporters for [[CNET]], ''The New York Times'' and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'') in order to obtain their phone records. The information leaked related to HP's long-term strategy and was published as part of a [[CNET]] article<ref>{{cite web|last=Kawamoto |first=Dawn |url=http://news.cnet.com/HP+outlines+long-term+strategy/2100-1014_3-6029519.html |title=HP outlines long-term strategy |CNET News.com |website=CNET |date=April 11, 2006 |access-date=July 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506221318/http://www.cnet.com/news/hp-outlines-long-term-strategy/|archive-date=May 6, 2016}}</ref> in January 2006. Most HP employees accused of criminal acts have since been acquitted.<ref>{{cite web|last=Katz |first=Leslie |url=http://news.cnet.com/Calif.-court-drops-charges-against-Dunn/2100-1014_3-6167187.html |title=Calif. court drops charges against Dunn |website=CNET |date=March 31, 2007 |access-date=July 7, 2011}}</ref> | ||
===Hardware=== | ===Hardware=== | ||