{"id":3061,"date":"2012-01-18T05:16:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T05:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2012-01-18T09:04:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T09:04:52","slug":"hp-names-new-strategy-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/3061\/hp-names-new-strategy-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"HP names new strategy chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307341-HP-Hewlett-Packard\" target=\"_blank\">Hewlett-Packard<\/a> Co on Tuesday named software veteran Bill Veghte as chief strategy officer as it overhauls its top ranks following a series of missteps over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Veghte, who joined HP in 2010 after spending two decades at <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a>, will continue in his current role as executive vice president of HP Software.<\/p>\n<p>HP appointed former California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman CEO in September, after firing former leader Leo Apotheker for a series of missteps, including a poor run at convincing Wall Street he had not overpaid for British software firm Autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>HP&#8217;s previous chief strategy officer Shane Robison left the company about two months ago<\/p>\n<p>Veghte, who HP said was instrumental in the delivery and launch of Windows 7, would also manage HP&#8217;s cloud and webOS open source initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>HP opened its <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/361746-webOS\" target=\"_blank\">webOS<\/a> mobile operating system to developers and companies after trying to figure out how to recoup its $1.2 billion purchase of Palm, which it acquired in 2010. WebOS was part of the Palm acquisition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hewlett-Packard Co on Tuesday named software veteran Bill Veghte as chief strategy officer as it overhauls its top ranks following a series of missteps over the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,749,273,747],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-appointement","tag-hewlett-packard","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}