"Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE) said on Tuesday that Meg Whitman was stepping down as chief executive officer, sending its shares down 7.4 percent in trading after the bell.
Whitman engineered the biggest breakup in corporate history during her 6 year tenure at the helm, creating HPE and PC-and-printer business HP Inc from parent Hewlett Packard Co in 2015."
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/11/21/hp-enterprise-ceo-meg-whitman-steps-down.html
Related Stories
Ryan Sullivan cancelled what he thought was a "random charge for $4.99 per month from HP called 'Instant Ink'". Then his printer refused to print:
It turns out that HP requires its customers to enroll HP Instant Ink eligible printers into one of the Instant Ink plans, and continue paying a monthly subscription in order to be allowed to use the device.
But where's the need to come up with different plans coming from, you may wonder? HP explains: the company charges a fee based on the number of pages a customer prints each month, and the page count is shockingly monitored remotely.
Naturally, the scheme is not advertised as a rather unusual application of DRM, but a way for customers to save time and money. Still, it would seem HP has not exactly gone out of its way to explain all the consequences to those customers.
HP's terms of service also say that these eligible, internet-connected printers can be remotely modified in several ways, including by applying patches, updates, and "changes" – without notifying customers.
Another thing HP can see thanks to the Instant Ink program is the type of documents you print, identifying them by extension as Word, etc., documents, PDFs, or JPEG and other types of images.
Additionally, the HP cartridges have been locked to specific printers for quite a while now.
Earlier on SN:
US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink (2019)
Xerox Is No More (2018)
Meg Whitman Resigns (2017)
Supreme Court Lets Consumers Refill Ink Cartridges (2017)
HP to Issue "Optional Firmware Update" Allowing 3rd-Party Ink (2016)
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:06AM (3 children)
And, she's probably a fascist. She's got to go.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:25AM (2 children)
It's unbelievable, she called me that. And she calls herself a Republican. She tried and failed to be the governor of California. She would have been the first Republican since Arnold. OK, he was terrible, very tough to follow him. Anybody could see that, she couldn't. She spent $160 million of her own money and still lost to Crazy Jerry. Very foolish!
And she said I was "unfit to be president." She called me a "dishonest demagogue." She said I was like Mussolini, who was a very big fascist, probably the biggest. She actually endorsed Crooked Hillary. She's a person with zero loyalty and zero I.Q. Less than zero, if that's possible. She's the opposite of loyal and the opposite of smart.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:06AM (1 child)
His Facebook videos - I expect on youtube as well - that defame your blessedness.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday November 23 2017, @07:47PM
Terrible wrestler, terrible actor, terrible businessman, terrible governor. He made Celebrity Apprentice tank, he blamed me!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:18AM (1 child)
... sexual harassment of herself.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:55AM
No, what she did was, when everybody was gone home and the skeleton crew were away from her office, she snuck into the building and wrote in red marker, "Bitch with a vagina, you suck because you have a vagina! Bitch!" on her then-locked office door.
Then she acted shocked, really shocked!!! the next day when she went to work and into the spectacle surrounding her office. Well, as it turned out, there were capable men behind those security cameras, and she was offered a way out in exchange for her silence. Being one of the more intelligent women out there, she accepted the offer.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:05AM (5 children)
So did she suck as much value out of the company and into friends' pockets as she could, or did she fire a bunch of hard working folks for no good reason?
I'm just a dumbass math major, I can't figure this stuff out on my own.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:21AM (1 child)
... sexual harassment of herself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @06:02AM
Self-Abuse.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-abuse [merriam-webster.com]
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:10PM
… sexual harassment of herself.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:38PM
This isn't an either/or proposition. My company was purchased by HP under Apotheker, then sold off after the HPI/HPE split by Whitman. Some of the worst management I've ever seen, and I worked at Dell during some of the worst years. HP was pretty much doomed before Whitman, of course, but piece-meal selling off the bits of the company that were still somewhat functional was a process that could have been done by anyone. The amount of money these dipshits get paid for destroying things other people have built is just outrageous.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @11:13PM
… sexual harassment of herself.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by takyon on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:16AM
Are any sources reporting the wingspan of Whitman's golden parachute / hand length of her golden handshake [wikipedia.org]?
Here is a 2015 article: http://www.businessinsider.com/whitman-gets-51-million-if-hp-axes-her-2015-3 [businessinsider.com]
She already got some $$$ from the breakup of HP but it looks like she will forgo $19 million because she is stepping down sooner than 2018: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-06/hpe-s-whitman-gets-35-6-million-for-2016-after-company-split [bloomberg.com]
She could use every dollar: https://www.politico.com/story/2010/09/how-meg-whitman-spent-100m-042457 [politico.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman#2010_campaign_for_California_Governor [wikipedia.org]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:18AM
I said 2 months ago, HPE should cut her loose because she's UNFIT and incompetent.
soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=21393&cid=563219 [soylentnews.org]