Techmeme: Accused of harassment, HP CEO Mark Hurd resigns (James Temple/San Francisco Chronicle)

5:55 AM ET, August 7, 2010

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HP:

HP CEO Mark Hurd Resigns; CFO Cathie Lesjak Appointed Interim CEO; HP Announces Preliminary Results and Raises Full-year Outlook — PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced that Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hurd has decided with the Board of Directors to resign his positions effective immediately.

CNET News:

HP's letter to employees on Hurd resignation — Mark Hurd stepped down as Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO in the wake of the company's investigation into a former HP contractor's claim that she was sexually harassed by him. Chief Financial Officer Cathie Lesjak immediately stepped in as interim CEO.

Discussion: CBS News, TechFlash and Silicon Alley Insider

James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:

Accused of harassment, HP CEO Mark Hurd resigns — Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Mark Hurd resigned abruptly amid allegations of sexual harassment and business misconduct, ending a highly regarded tenure under a cloud of controversy, the company announced Friday.

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
HP after Hurd: May the CEO guessing game begin

Discussion: Financial Times, Silicon Alley Insider, Deal Journal, Digital Daily and GigaOM

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Here's the Big IPO You've Been Waiting For: Demand Media Files With the SEC — Fun weekend reading for the tech and media set: Demand Media's S-1 filing, the first step it will take on the road to a public offering. — The S-1 doesn't include lots of important information …

Discussion: Softpedia News, paidContent, VatorNews, Silicon Alley Insider, GigaOM, TechCrunch, lalawag, The Social, John Battelle's Searchblog and Romenesko, more at Mediagazer »

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Demand Media's IPO: The Google & SEO Aspects — Demand Media has filed for an IPO. The company, known as a content farm to some, produces much of its content on sites like eHow and others in direct response to what it determines people are searching for on the web.

Discussion: All Facebook, Techie Buzz, Wall Street Journal, paidContent and DealBook, Thanks:atul

Matt Burns / CrunchGear:

Best Buy's CTO Tweets Out Pics Of A Rocketfish Tablet. Seriously, A Best Buy Tablet. — Well, look at that. A Rocketfish tablet. Can't say we saw this coming, but Best Buy's CTO and Geek Squad founder, Robert Stephens, just tweeted two pics of the surprisingly polished-looking tablet.

Discussion: Pocket-lint, eHomeUpgrade, Liliputing, Engadget, SlashGear, Electronista, Crave and GottaBeMobile

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web — Bill Gates thinks something is going to die too. — No, it's not physical books like Nicholas Negroponte — instead, Gates thinks the idea of young adults having to go to universities in order to get an education is going to go away relatively soon.

Discussion: Gizmodo, PadGadget, Future Tense and The Microsoft Blog

Ina Fried / CNET News: Bill Gates: Better software modeling is a key

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Adds Email-Based FaceTime Support in iOS 4.1 Beta 3 — Apple's latest beta version of iOS 4.1 released earlier this week has offered the strongest evidence yet that the company is planning to roll out FaceTime video calling functionality to future non-iPhone devices based on the iOS operating system.

Karl Bode / DSLreports:

To Be Clear: Google IS Fighting Real Net Neutrality Rules - Knows which side their Android bread is buttered... As we've noted, the FCC yesterday announced they were ceasing all closed-door negotiations with carriers and Google after reports surfaced that Verizon and Google had been hashing out their own private neutrality arrangement.

Discussion: Associated Press

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

Facebook on ‘lockdown’ as it prepares for war with Google — It looks like Google isn't the only one gearing up for a social network battle. — Rumors surfaced in June that the search giant was developing a Facebook competitor called Google Me, and the company's social networking ambitions became …

Discussion: Webomatica

Dan Goodin / The Register:

Defcon speaker calls IPv6 a ‘security nightmare’ — Growing pains for next-gen address system — The internet's next-generation addressing scheme is so radically different from the current one that its adoption is likely to cause severe security headaches for those who adopt it, a researcher said last week.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Nicholas Negroponte: The Physical Book Is Dead In 5 Years — Today at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with a panel including Bill Joy, Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Negroponte, and Willie Smits. The topic was basically the future of technology.

Discussion: CNET News and Spark Minute

David Glazer / The Official Google Blog:

Google and Slide: building a more social web — We're excited to announce we've acquired Slide, a social technology company with an extensive history of building new ways for people to connect with others across numerous platforms online. — For Google, the web is about people …

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
How Slide Pushes Google's Open Social Strategy

Discussion: Computerworld and TechCrunch

Niraj Sheth / Wall Street Journal:

AT&T Downplays iPhone Pact Risks — Carrier Says Any Loss of Exclusivity Won't Have ‘Material’ Impact — AT&T Inc. said Friday it doesn't expect to suffer a “material negative impact” from the end of its exclusive arrangements to carry handsets, including its lucrative deal for Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

Discussion: TechCrunch and Mashable!

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

uTorrent Wants Torrent Sites to Adopt Torrent Tweet — BitTorrent Inc. has released a new App for uTorrent that allows users to find out what others people are saying about a torrent they're downloading. Users can also join the discussion and use uTorrent to tweet about torrents.

Discussion: BitTorrent Blog, Epicenter and TechCrunch

Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:

MTV loses Web videos from Universal Music — MTV, once the king of music videos, has failed to reach an agreement with music portal Vevo, for the rights to Universal Music Group's Web music videos. — Negotiations between MTV and Vevo over videos from UMG, home of such artists as U2 …

Discussion: Epicenter, AdAge, paidContent, Mashable!, MediaFile, hypebot and NewTeeVee, more at Mediagazer »

Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:

New ASUS Windows Phone 7 Device Appears in Pakistan — We don't have much information on this (yet) but it looks like an ASUS device running on Windows Phone 7 has been spotted in Pakistan. Unlike the LG Panther and Samsung Taylor devices that are only intended to be development devices …

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