Of the 2016 Republican presidential candidates who can be said to be having a "moment" this August, all of them have something in common.

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.

Donald Trump, the man to beat in tonight’s first televised Republican presidential debate, said he does not plan to attack his rivals and downplayed expectations for his performance, saying “I’m not a debater.”

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.

President Barack Obama’s Democrats narrowly retained their Senate majority, losing at least six seats but beating tough challenges in key states like Nevada, West Virginia and California.

Opposition Republicans delivered a stinging blow to President Barack Obama, capturing the US House of Representatives in election results.

Wall Street was in shock today after the chief executive of technology giant Hewlett-Packard was forced to resign over claims of sexual harassment and fiddling expenses to hide a secret relationship with a former contractor.

ONCE, California Democrats led the way to a year of the women. Now, nearly two decades later, Republicans hope that it’s their turn.

Why does Palin not make the grade? She is too pretty and confident and may embarrass us, writes Belinda Luscombe.

End-of-quarter selling and growing uneasiness about the US economy sent stocks sliding on Wall Street today, with Caterpillar and other industrials depressing blue chips and technology issues dragging the Nasdaq composite index to a five-month low.

HEWLETT-PACKARD Co, a week after ousting chief executive Carly Fiorina for failing to produce the profits she promised, said first-quarter earnings were little changed.

THE board of Hewlett-Packard has ousted chief executive officer Carly Fiorina after five years in which the company’s shares fell more than 50%.

US stocks sagged today in a bout of profit-taking, but blue chips fared better than they might have otherwise as shares of Dow Jones component Hewlett-Packard surged following the ousting of CEO Carly Fiorina.

Carly Fiorina, one of corporate America’s highest ranking female executives, was sacked as chairman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard today after clashing with the technology giant’s board.

Hewlett-Packard Co shares had their biggest gain in two years after the computer maker said fourth-quarter profit beat its forecast and Chief Executive Carly Fiorina said she’s fixed mistakes in the server business.

Hewlett-Packard has reported a 9% rise in its third-quarter revenue.

BT and HP have announced plans to develop a global IT alliance.

Tánaiste and Minster for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, Mary Harney, is in Washington today for a series of top level meetings with senior members of the US administration.

Hewlett-Packard says it has signed its "largest-ever imaging and printing services contract" with Ford Motor .

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard announced a growth of quarterly profit to $862m (€722.3m) as a result of robust sales growth in consumer sales and technology services.

CHAT show star Oprah Winfrey is the seventh most powerful woman in US business, ranking alongside a wealthy cast of top company executives.

Chat show star Oprah Winfrey is the seventh most powerful woman in American business, ranking alongside a wealthy cast of top company executives, it emerged today.

SHARES of Hewlett-Packard Co, the world’s second-biggest computer maker, fell as much as 12% after the company said it missed analysts’ third-quarter sales and profit estimates and cut personal computer prices too much.

Hewlett Packard net profit in the quarter to January 31 rose 84.9% from the previous quarter to

Shares in H-P rose 10% in extended trading as it reported a $390m, or 13 cents a share net profit for its fourth fiscal quarter.

Shares in Hewlett-Packard fell 10% when it was announced that Michael Capellas, second in command, was leaving the company.

Hewlett-Packard Corp is to cut around 5,900 jobs from a total of 46,000 in Europe as a consequence of the merger with Compaq Computer Corp, the boss of HP Germany, Heribert Schmitz, was quoted as saying today.

A US judge has cleared Hewlett-Packard of allegations that the company acted improperly over the Compaq Computer Corporation acquisition, probably paving the way for the completion of the high-tech industry’s biggest merger.

Compaq says its shareholders have endorsed the company's plan to merge with Hewlett-Packard by a nine to one margin.

Supporters of Hewlett-Packard's plan to buy Compaq are cautiously claiming victory in a shareholder vote on the merger.

Hewlett Packard has set 19th March as the date on which shareholders are to vote on the company's plan to buy Compaq Computer.

Hewlett-Packard has announced that it expects its fiscal first quarterly results, which will be posted next week, to be better than anticipated.

Hewlett-Packard and Compaq plan to award €613m in bonuses to key employees as an incentive to stay on if their merger goes through.

A warning from Hewlett-Packard about future growth and concerns about weakness in the US banking sector today prompted investors to cash in profits following Wall Street’s four-session advance.