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There are reports that Hewlett-Packard may shed hundreds of jobs at its plant in Leixlip, Co Kildare.

Since the opening of Digital Equipment Corporation in Galway in 1971 its legacy — now in the guise of Hewlett Packard Enterprise — is still as strong as ever, writes Dr Chris Coughlan.

An estimated 50 Cork-based jobs are to be cut at newly merged technology giant Dell-EMC, it emerged yesterday.

The Department of Social Protection has strongly defended the JobBridge scheme amid calls for it to be scrapped.

Computer maker Dell has clinched a record $67bn (€59bn) technology deal to buy data storage company EMC.

Irish tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch yesterday said he would file a claim against Hewlett-Packard for $150m (€134m) in damages over allegations the US company made about his role in the acquisition of his software company Autonomy in 2011.

Donald Trump has responded to a question from CNN about whether Muslims pose a danger to the country by saying: “I love the Muslims. I think they’re great people.”

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Fears have emerged for some 4,000 Irish workers after global IT company Hewlett-Packard announced a second wave of job cuts that will see up to 35,000 employees lose their jobs globally.

HEWLETT-PACKARD is to cut another 25,000-30,000 jobs worldwide due to falling demand for its products and the move towards cloud technology. The latest wave of cuts comes on top of the 55,000 layoffs previously announced by the company.

Billionaire US presidential candidate Donald Trump has refused to back down over his controversial comments about women.

Donald Trump has professed his love for women and said he would be their best advocate if elected president, dismissing the firestorm of his own making that has consumed the Republican presidential campaign.

The Dow Jones industrial average notched its third record high close in a row on Wednesday, even as other market indexes ended lower.

Hewlett-Packard raised total compensation for chairman and chief executive Meg Whitman by 11% ahead of the company’s expected split into two publicly traded entities by the end of this year.

Google will stop selling its internet-connected eyewear to consumers until the company can develop a more polished and affordable version that’s less likely to be viewed as a freakish device.

Spinmania is crossing the Atlantic. If 2014 was the year of the US corporate spinoff, the next 12 months may see the trend grow in Europe.

EMC Corp will start selling a package of storage, services, and VMware software to help customers set up cloud networks in their corporate data centres and easily shift them to the internet.

EMC, the maker of storage computers facing pressure from an activist shareholder to break up, said it will acquire most of Cisco Systems’ stake in joint venture VCE, which sells high-end data center equipment.

Hewlett-Packard is splitting into two companies, using a breakup to become nimbler after failing to keep up with the shift away from the printing and personal computing businesses it pioneered.

EMC, the maker of storage computers, facing the retirement of chief executive Joseph Tucci and activist pressure, is exploring strategic options that could include a full or partial sale, or a spinoff of VMware Inc.

The US stock market advanced for a fourth straight day, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500 index to a record high.

Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman is benefiting from a surge in PC sales. Now she needs to show she can make progress in other businesses, including software and services.

Singer Chubby Checker has settled a lawsuit in which he accused Hewlett-Packard of using his trademarked name without permission on a software app that purported to measure the size of a man’s penis.

US chipmaker Intel yesterday lost its challenge against a record €1.06bn EU fine handed down five years ago, as Europe’s second highest court said regulators did not act too harshly.

Google has revealed how white and male its workforce is – just 2% of its employees are black, 3% are Hispanic, and 30% are women.

The decision on whether the planned 16,000 redundancies at Hewlett-Packard will affect its Irish operations in Leixlip will be made over the next few months, according to a company spokesperson.

Hewlett-Packard’s senior executives were aware of certain Autonomy sales practices months before a whistleblower flagged them, prompting HP to write down Autonomy’s value, the Financial Times reported.

Hewlett Packard saidAutonomy, the software firm it bought in 2011, overstated profits at one of its main British units by 81% in the year before it was sold in Britain’s biggest technology deal.

Eight out of 10 social media users are sharing photos and personal details which leaves them vulnerable to online thieves, a study shows.

Google and Hewlett-Packard are halting sales of their recently released Chromebook 11 computer after some users reported the device’s charger has been overheating.

For the second time since outsourcing its IT infrastructure to Hewlett-Packard, the Central Bank has suffered an outage when one of its servers crashed.

Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis left a note saying he was driven to kill by months of bombardment with extremely low-frequency radio waves, the FBI said.

AS Apple unveiled new iPhones, a complex operation had already kicked into gear behind the scenes to send millions of the handsets to store shelves worldwide.

Hewlett-Packard is being removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a sign of waning confidence in the company’s turnaround efforts amid a historic slump in the PC industry.

A REUTERS examination of accounts for hundreds of subsidiaries of the biggest US technology companies shows most do not declare a tax residence for their main business in the biggest European markets.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world by business magazine Forbes for the third year running.

Microsoft, the largest software maker, reported fiscal second-quarter sales that met most analysts’ estimates as corporate customers continued to buy copies of Windows and Office software.

Dell is in buyout talks with private equity firms, according to sources.

Massachusetts: The Security for Business Innovation Council — an IT security council established by technology giant EMC — has urged companies to update their cybercrime combating skills.

The US justice department has opened an investigation relating to Autonomy Corp after Hewlett-Packard accused the software company of misrepresenting its performance before being bought last year.

Two companies yesterday announced they will be creating 170 jobs in Ireland over the course of the next three years.

Stocks edged higher today on Wall Street after a strong sales report from McDonald's offset concerns about the surprise resignation announcement of Italy's Prime Minister.

The stock market enjoyed some Black Friday cheer, rising sharply as shoppers braved the annual post-Thanksgiving rush. Major stock indexes closed one of their best weeks of the year.