Caprice Fimbres McIlvaine, former head of internal communications at HP and a top aide to Mark Hurd, has left the company. Why? Well, the fact that she was the person to get sexxxxy, lawsuit-firing Jodie Fisher hired might have something to do with it. But hey, I’m no detective. [Fortune]
Howard Stringer is a goddamn knight. When Amazon bought Zappos, we saw Jeff Bezos’s eight-minute YouTube video and wished he’d absorb our companies too. So now that HP’s CEO has resigned, I gotta ask: Who the hell is Mark Hurd?
Ever since HP’s acquisition of Palm was announced in April, everyone’s been clamouring about a webOS tablet. It could be very cool! And according to Engadget, Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley told HP employees that just such a product, codenamed Hurricane, was on track for the first quarter of 2011.
We knew that plenty of Palm employees left once HP acquired the company, but now we know the latest one to jump ship: Peter Skillman, Palm’s Vice President of Design. Also known as the man who designed the Pre.
Jodie Fisher, the former HP contractor who sued former HP CEO Mark Hurd for sexual harassment and then settled out of court, has stated this evening she is “surprised and saddened” that the sacked executive is now without a job.
Recently resigned HP CEO Mark Hurd has purportedly settled with his accuser out of court, sources told Reuters this weekend. The settlement reportedly ends legal proceedings, as the woman, a former HP contractor, has agreed to drop all complaints.
HP CEO Mark Hurd has resigned over a sexual harassment allegation levelled by a former HP contractor. The company says an investigation by outside counsel showed no sexual harassment violation, though there were violations of HP’s Standards of Business Conduct.
HP’s Mark Hurd, during a conference call. We were foolish to think that it would somehow escape this undignified fate. Thankfully, a webOS tablet is still very much in the cards. [HP]
