Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorinais an American businessperson and political candidate. Fiorina is known primarily for her tenure as the Chief Executive Officerof Hewlett-Packard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 September 1954
CityAustin, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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Economic conditions around the world continue to be challenging, but consumer technology spending is clearly showing some strength, ... As a result, we are seeing better-than-expected revenues in our PC and imaging and printing businesses.
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Economies around the world continue to weaken as we move through the quarter,
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We are managing through what is clearly a significant global economic downturn, and our results reflect this tough environment, ... However, we are seeing positive signs that our efforts to transform our business and improve our execution are gaining traction, and we continue to make strategic moves to fuel growth.
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Our results continue to be impacted by significant macro-economic challenges and particular weakness in consumer and capital spending in the U.S. and Europe,
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This continues to be a challenging and somewhat unpredictable environment, ... Given our miss, we think it's prudent to be somewhat cautious.
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This board has always operated on the important governance principles of independence, deliberation and respect for a diversity of views, ... The board recognizes the importance of shareowner voices. We will reach out to shareowners, including our institutions and foundations, to determine the best way to assure they continue to be heard.
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At the same time, I think it is also true that the level of overall IT spending continues to remain quite depressed, and pricing pressures continue to be very real.
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We turned in very strong performance in our UNIX business. We now have a superb product lineup with more in the pipeline.
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These results demonstrate that we are winning and growing across the portfolio in an intensely competitive market,
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We had planned for single-digit growth in our PC business in the U.S.; we had planned for that in U.S. retail, ... Nevertheless, we did indicate that we saw less growth than anticipated even with that single-digit forecast. It is a relatively small part of our portfolio and it does not change our forecast.
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We do not see any meaningful improvement in IT spending, and we are not counting on a strong holiday buying season, ... We still have a lot of work to do. But the results today validate and demonstrate our progress towards our goals of meeting and exceeding all of our integration targets.
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The third quarter is always tough, but we still should have done better,
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Technology is changing so fast, that to bet a business on a proprietary technology, or on a single technology, commits an IT environment to becoming a legacy environment.
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Completion of the FTC review marks a major milestone in the approval process, and we are now focused on winning the shareowner vote,