This has to be judged a successful appearance for Fiorina because it accomplished what she set out to do – show that she has a playful side without sacrificing her dignity.
The weak September jobs report and downward revisions to the prior two months raised fresh fears about the health of the USA economy, which appears to have weakened amid a slowing global economy and recent market turbulence.
While no-class Planned Parenthood protesters did their best to disrupt an Iowa tailgate party for 2016 Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina, she turned the tables and schooled one of the miscreants.
The GOP presidential candidate got a scare when a large curtain fell across the stage, rod and all, in San Antonio, Texas, Sunday. “Carly wasn’t injured”, Fiorina spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in an email.
The layoffs are part of a plan to cut $2.7 billion in annual costs, the company said. In a Re/Code report, he said that by the end of HP Enterprise’s fiscal year 2018, only 40 percent of the group’s workforce will be located in high-cost countries.
A slowdown in combined shipments of devices – PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones – is looming as users increasingly opt to hang on to their equipment, according to a market forecast from Gartner.
The latest cuts, in addition to 55,000 lay-off earlier announced under chief executive officer Meg Whitman, would be in the faster-growing corporate hardware and services operations of the company.
Some of his remarks would have embarrassed a “real” politician – as when he responded to Fiorina’s putdown with, “She’s got a lovely face” – and his facial contortions were a show within the show.