{"id":175,"date":"2011-08-18T19:06:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T23:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=175"},"modified":"2011-08-18T19:10:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T23:10:22","slug":"hp-kills-touchpad-looks-to-exit-pc-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"HP kills TouchPad, looks to exit PC business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hp.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-176\" title=\"hp_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hp_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hp_logo.jpg 350w, https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hp_logo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; Hewlett-Packard is taking a hatchet to its business and doing some radical restructuring.<\/p>\n<p>The company said Thursday that it is looking to spin off its industry-leading but struggling personal computer business. HP also killed off the TouchPad tablet it launched last month, as well as its webOS smartphone line.<\/p>\n<p>The move essentially leaves for dead the webOS software HP got by acquiring Palm last year, though the company said it will continue trying to &#8220;optimize the value&#8221; of its purchase. Though the move was unexpected, it&#8217;s not all that surprising: Despite a huge marketing campaign, TouchPad sales struggled so much that HP almost immediately cut the tablet&#8217;s price by $100. HP said none of its webOS products reached the company&#8217;s internal sales targets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/08\/18\/technology\/hp_pc_spinoff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to read the whole article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; Hewlett-Packard is taking a hatchet to its business and doing some radical restructuring. The company said Thursday that it is looking to spin off its industry-leading but struggling personal computer business. HP also killed off the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business_ecm_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}