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Inside Xerox’s audacious quest to buy much bigger rival HP
03-22-2020, 04:03 AM
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Inside Xerox’s audacious quest to buy much bigger rival HP
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03-22-2020, 08:57 AM
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Pity it's behind a paywall.

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03-22-2020, 11:43 AM
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(03-22-2020 08:57 AM)grsbanks Wrote:  Pity it's behind a paywall.

I didn't have any trouble reading it.
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03-22-2020, 01:27 PM
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(03-22-2020 11:43 AM)cruff Wrote:  
(03-22-2020 08:57 AM)grsbanks Wrote:  Pity it's behind a paywall.

I didn't have any trouble reading it.

I did. They want you to subscribe to Fortune magazine.
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03-22-2020, 03:46 PM
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>They want you to subscribe to Fortune magazine.

Not on my computer. Windows 10 / Firefox with adblock and noscript. I tried it on Google Chrome and it asked me to subscribe.
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03-22-2020, 03:51 PM
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Firefox also blocked it on my machine as did Chrome. Consider yourself and your configuration lucky! :-)
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03-22-2020, 04:25 PM (This post was last modified: 03-22-2020 04:27 PM by Massimo Gnerucci.)
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Not Opera, not Chrome, I only did it on IE, where paywall shows its window but the content is readable and not washed out!

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03-22-2020, 04:39 PM
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On an iPhone it comes up blocked but after waiting a while and coming back to it seems readable
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03-22-2020, 08:05 PM
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(03-22-2020 03:46 PM)Guy Macon Wrote:  >They want you to subscribe to Fortune magazine.

Not on my computer. Windows 10 / Firefox with adblock and noscript. I tried it on Google Chrome and it asked me to subscribe.

That's probably why I could read it. I'm using Firefox on Mac with uBlock Origin and Cookie AutoDelete.
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03-22-2020, 09:32 PM (This post was last modified: 03-22-2020 09:54 PM by jonese.)
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Tip. If you don't want/have noscript, reload the page and stop/abort it sometime before it finishes loading. I had to stop it about 1.5 seconds after the page started a refresh. You may have to try this multiple times finding the right timing.

Not always 100%, but pretty good success rate.
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03-23-2020, 12:45 PM
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So the question is, if this goes through will the new bosses make any significant changes to the calculator lineup?
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03-23-2020, 03:53 PM
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(03-23-2020 12:45 PM)Guy Macon Wrote:  So the question is, if this goes through will the new bosses make any significant changes to the calculator lineup?

No any new one will certainly be a copy of a copy of a copy of an old model. Smile

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03-23-2020, 04:18 PM
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(03-23-2020 12:45 PM)Guy Macon Wrote:  So the question is, if this goes through will the new bosses make any significant changes to the calculator lineup?

If the new mgmt. team is even slightly competent, it will be years before they should discuss calculators, if they even know about them. There are so many other really big issues that need to be addressed in HPI, the breadcrumbs of calculator sales are likely well within round-off error of all but the pickiest accountant, who no doubt uses a 12C.

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03-23-2020, 06:08 PM
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I imagine that the Xerox offer of $24/sh, for HPQ, is off the table with HPQ shares trading near $14/sh on Monday. But the total offer could now be much lower at $24B vs. $35B. Not sure what Xerox is thinking, by buying HPQ netting 5% margin. While HPQ has $4.5B in cash, they also have $6.0B in debt. Debt assumption would still be enormous. Lexmark was purchased by the Chinese two years ago. The printer market is a drive to the bottom, IMHO. Unfortunately, calculators are now a small HP sideline that used to be a respected product HP pioneered when Bill and Dave had a passion for excellence in design and engineering. We truly lived in the golden era of the electronic frontier with HP, Jobs and Gates.....just to name a few.
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