Xerox

Imagine a world where Apple shacked up with Xerox in the '80s: How might it look today?

Feature An alternative history of the computer revolution

On-Prem14 Jul 2021 | 91

Talk about ill-gotten gains: Coronavirus KOs Xerox's $30bn months-long hostile takeover bid of HP Inc

Turmoil in the financial markets fells ambitious acquisition plan

Personal Tech31 Mar 2020 | 17

Stockholders, assemble. HP's latest argument: Do you really trust Xerox to take us over during a pandemic recession?

Execs make new plea to shareholders in hostile takeover battle

Personal Tech26 Mar 2020 | 8

Xerox slurps something that isn't HP Inc: Brit managed print services houses Altodigital and ITEC Connect

Prices undisclosed but you can bet it was cheaper

On-Prem25 Mar 2020 | 2

Oh, we may have found the COVID-19 silver lining: Coronavirus pandemic halts Xerox hostile takeover of HP

And nothing to do with stock-market crash, nope, no way

Personal Tech13 Mar 2020 | 12

HP Inc to Xerox: If you complete a hostile takeover, and try firing our chief exec, you will pay...

... a bigger severance package to Lores, that is

On-Prem11 Mar 2020 | 19

Stop us if you've heard this one before: HP Inc rejects Xerox's $36.5bn buyout plan as takeover saga drags on

The buy price, the debts... won't someone think of the HP shareholders?

On-Prem05 Mar 2020 | 35

HP hostile takeover warms up: Xerox queues print job cash_and_shares.pdf, mails it to the board to mull over

PC-and-printers biz will 'carefully review and evaluate the offer' before, presumably, deciding: No

Personal Tech02 Mar 2020 | 16

HP Ink: No way, Xerox. We're not accepting your takeover. Well, we'd never say never. Maybe even maybe? Hello, you still there? Please?

Absolutely not entertaining an offer that could you just repeat one more time?

Personal Tech25 Feb 2020 | 20

This is your last chance, HP. There's no turning back. You take blue poison pill, the story ends. You take the red Xerox pill, you stay in Wonderland

Photocopier goliath hits back at PC giant's attempt to scupper takeover

Personal Tech21 Feb 2020 | 57

Larry Tesler cut and pasted from this mortal coil: That thing you just did? He probably invented it

Obit PARC, Apple and Amazon – computing pioneer dies at 74

Software19 Feb 2020 | 60

Xerox hopes wining and dining HP shareholders will convince them of takeover

Just edible gold rather than briefcases filled with the actual stuff

On-Prem17 Feb 2020 | 17

Xerox ups bid in hostile takeover of HP Ink to more than $36.5bn

Rifles down back of sofa, finds extra $3bn for shareholders

On-Prem10 Feb 2020 | 14

Xerox names the 11 directors it hopes will oust most of HP's board and put $33bn hostile takeover to shareholders

Updated The dirty dozen... well, almost

On-Prem23 Jan 2020 | 19

Xerox to nominate up to 11 directors to HP's board in hostile takeover push – report

If yours won't support a merger, we'll install some who will

On-Prem22 Jan 2020 | 16

The soap opera continues. HP again tells Xerox: Show us more money!

$33bn 'significantly undervalue' the stock, your move again copier giant

On-Prem09 Jan 2020 | 24

Xerox grabs $24bn from banking titans to fund hostile takeover of HP Ink

CEO and co-chair Visentin writes to HP board to say: Let's get this thing done

On-Prem06 Jan 2020 | 28

Xerox woos HP stock owners with talk of layoffs, selloffs and cash payouts post merger

Let's strap these bricks together and maybe we'll make a boat

Personal Tech09 Dec 2019 | 27

HP Inc: Don't ask us about Xerox. Just get a load of our, er, flat as a pancake sales growth

Meanwhile, VMware had a bumper third quarter

Personal Tech27 Nov 2019 | 3

Xerox: Prepare to say cyan-ara, HP Inc. We're no paper tiger. We're really very serious about that hostile takeover

Just you wait, we'll do it, we'll force a merger, any moment now – face the fax, pal

Personal Tech26 Nov 2019 | 41

Copy that? We'll never join you on the Xerox side if you don't answer simple questions – HP

Do your homework then get back to us

On-Prem25 Nov 2019 | 14

Why can't you be a nice little computer maker and just GET IN THE TRUNK, Xerox tells HP in hostile takeover alert

Did you copy that?

Personal Tech21 Nov 2019 | 39

Icahn smell money! Corporate raider grabs $1.2bn of HP stock to push for Xerox merger

Watch out, Carl's about

On-Prem14 Nov 2019 | 29

Open wide, very wide: Xerox considers buying HP. Yes, the HP that is more than three times its market cap

Updated Reports indicate faded ink tech heavyweights mull arm linkage

On-Prem06 Nov 2019 | 72

Printer pwnage, phone poppage, and apparently US Homeland Security needs security help

Roundup Plus: The spambot that actually DOES record screens of pr0n users

Security12 Aug 2019 | 5

The eulogising of The Mother Of All Demos at 50 is Silicon Valley going goo-goo for gurus again

Comment Doug Engelbart retrofitted for mystical bullsh!t

On-Prem13 Dec 2018 | 59

Xerox flip-flops on US$6.1 billion Fujifilm flip after investor flap

That sound you hear? Contracts being ripped up

On-Prem15 May 2018 | 5

Xerox CEO resigns as company caves to activist investors

Fujifilm deal in doubt as Carl Icahn and pals win big

On-Prem02 May 2018 | 11

Xerox CEO accused of seeking Fujifilm tie-up against board's instructions

Not so, huffs Xerox chair

On-Prem16 Apr 2018 | 4

Icahn't get right Xerox Fuji merger spoils, cries activist investor Carl

Me? Single biggest shareholder? Kneel before my portfolio

On-Prem13 Feb 2018 | 24

Sack the Xerox CEO 'immediately', yell activist investors

Moneymen always ready to say: Icahn tell you what you're doing wrong

On-Prem23 Jan 2018 | 26

Xerox lays out BPO breakup plan

New company will be a copy, like ...oh...what's the word?

Channel14 Jun 2016 | 11

Amazon nabs AI boffin from Xerox PARC

Ashwin Ram will lead AI R&D department

On-Prem06 May 2016 | 3

Atos buys up Xerox ITO, splashing almost $1 billion in process

French firm sets its sights on US takeover

Channel02 Jul 2015 | 2

Merlot and hot dogs: Atos snaps up Xerox's outsourcing biz for $1.05bn

Plan for world domination based on shrugs and '3-year strategic plan’

Channel19 Dec 2014 | 4

PARC Alto source code released by computer history museum

A slice of history: the GUI before the Apple

Personal Tech22 Oct 2014 | 10

Two Xerox houses become one: Pair of copycats now big, fat £57m UK firm

Xeretec weds Bytes Document Solutions

Channel01 May 2014 |

Xerox names former HP veteran as UK channel royalty

All hail Norman Richardson

Channel07 Feb 2014 |

SEC asks Affiliated Computer Services to step aside, snaps on rubber glove

Xerox exec, 2 others receive Wells notices

Channel08 Oct 2013 | 1

Xerox begins rolling out patches for jumbled-numbers copier glitch

Innumerate devices enlighted by downloadable fix

Personal Tech22 Aug 2013 | 15

Xerox admits there's no fix yet for number-fudging copiers

Don’t trust your spreadsheets to these machines

Channel14 Aug 2013 | 49

Patching Xerox's number-changing photocopy phlaw will take weeks

Company publishes a workaround in the meantime

Personal Tech08 Aug 2013 | 23

Danwood axes 200 after discovering 'accounting weaknesses'

Troubled print biz lost £8.5m in fiscal '12

Channel28 May 2013 | 1

Apple raids Xerox YET AGAIN - for its chief beancounter

Cupertino's latest hotshot named

On-Prem14 Jan 2013 | 14

Predatory IP threatening the progress of open innovation

PARC celebrates 10 years anniversary with a warning

On-Prem27 Apr 2012 | 7

Printers SMASHED to bits in Office Space copycat revenge vid

Vid Volunteers queue to get own back on irksome tech

Bootnotes13 Apr 2012 | 30

Quantum offers a cheap massage to hot cloud data

Virtual dedupe route to backup

Channel22 Mar 2012 | 1

Xerox CEO's cure for US educational woes: 'Cool' and cash

CES 2012 Put down that basketball and pick up those books

Legal12 Jan 2012 | 12

Ten... colour laser printers

Review Rainbow warriors

Personal Tech26 Nov 2011 | 26

Bytes hungry for more buys

Looking at storage and virtualisation

Channel12 Aug 2011 |

Top CEOs agree: US is down the crapper

CES 2011 Dumb and getting dumber

Legal11 Jan 2011 | 104

Xerox joins HP in printing by email

Just be sure the spam filter is in place

On-Prem22 Sep 2010 | 9

Buyer's Guide: Colour Laser Printers

Group Test What to watch out for

Personal Tech26 Mar 2010 | 6

Desktop Colour Laser Printers: Best Buys

Group Test And the winner is...

Personal Tech26 Mar 2010 | 23

Microsoft boffin scoops Turing Award

Hardware guru wins computing's 'Nobel prize'

Personal Tech10 Mar 2010 | 16

Xerox sues Google and Yahoo! over patentspeak

Stay off my apparatus for the integration of information!

Legal24 Feb 2010 | 11