Hewlett-Packard said on Thursday that it was considering spinning off its personal computer (PC) business into a separate company and was in talks to acquire Autonomy, a business software maker.
In its second quarter, PC business sales of HP declined 5.0 percent to $9.4 billion. HP’s PC business forms the biggest part of revenues, but is the least profitable, owing to thin margins.
An acquisition of Autonomy, which specialises in search software for email and documents, would rank as HP’s third largest. It has offered to buy all outstanding shares of Autonomy for $42.11 per share.
Autonomy will operate as a business unit within HP and will be led by current Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch. The company employs 2,700 workers worldwide.
HP also announced it would stop selling webOS devices, including the TouchPad tablets and smartphones, as it looks to transform its operations to focus on enterprises. HP plans to concentrate on its enterprise and printer businesses and sell or spin off its Personal Systems Group (PSG), which is responsible for sales of the PCs and webOS devices.
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