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With a $99 price tag, Hewlett-Packard's WebOS TouchPad joined Dell Streak 5 in the tablet graveyard after just seven weeks on shelves, and given the weak sales of many other players, it looks like similar deaths are bound to follow.

NEW YORK - The sudden demise of Hewlett-Packard Co's WebOS TouchPad after just seven weeks on shelves was a reminder of how tech giants have failed so far to take a bite out of Apple Inc's iPad.

Selected Best Buy stores will sell the $99 HP TouchPad tablet starting Sunday

HP is 'reinventing' itself, shedding its PC division and the division responsible for its TouchPad tablet -- the would-be iPad contender -- but that means it can now be yours for $99. So should you run out and get one?

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After missing earnings by a long-shot and announcing the divestiture of its webOS smartphone and tablet business, HP is now slashing the prices of its TouchPad tablet. But is it even worth $99?

BBY added that its match policy doesn’t apply if customers find a tablet discounted by another retailer.

Just a day after, HP announced that it would discontinue with the webOS smartphone and tablet business, the company is selling its Wi-Fi only HP Touchpad 16 GB for $99 and 32 GB version for $149.

HP is killing its TouchPad, intended to compete with Apple's iPad. HP said it will no longer support the TouchPad, focusing in other areas.

Hewlett-Packard no longer likes the PC business, but investors aren't liking HP at the moment on that news. One day after HP said it is considering shedding its PC unit, which currently comprises 30 percent of company sales, investors shed the company's stock, sending HP shares plunging to near six-year lows.

Retailers have started selling HP's TouchPad at drastically lower prices.

Microsoft will offer free Windows Phones, dev tools and free training to webOS developers, Brandon Watson, senior director of the company, announced in a tweet. To Any Published WebOS Devs: We'll give you what you need to be successful on WindowsPhone, incl.free phones, dev tools, and training, etc. Brandon Watson, Senior Director of Windows Phone 7 development at Microsoft tweeted on Friday.

Shares of Hewlett-Packard slumped by more than 20 percent to a six-year low on Friday as investors wiped about $16 billion off the market value of the world's biggest PC maker in a resounding rejection of its plan for a major shake-up.

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The iPad 3 is in development, according to a report. Apple's new tablet will likely be released in early 2012, the report said.

Shares in Hewlett-Packard slumped by more than a fifth to a six-year low early on Friday, a day after the world's biggest PC maker signaled a major shake-up in its business and cut its annual forecast.

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Hopes Hewlett-Packard's $11.7 billion bid for Autonomy will be the first of many in the European software industry could be misplaced because Autonomy has an appeal that others cannot match.

The company's stock is in the tank as it deals with the aftermath of its controversial decision.

Shares of Hewlett-Packard slid 11 percent premarket on Friday, a day after the world's biggest PC maker said it may spin off the business, and cut its outlook, signaling a massive overhaul in the wake of bleak tech spending across the board.

Intel Corp's PC business will face greater pricing pressure following Hewlett-Packard Co's decision to spin off its personal computers business, Nomura said and added that it expects the top chipmaker to miss its third-quarter guidance.

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) announced a series of developments Thursday, including the potential spin-off of its personal computer business.

Hewlett-Packard is making a bold move to reshape its business that analysts are applauding as having long-term upside. In the short term, however, investors are concerned about the cost and risks involved -- sending HP shares down 16.23 percent Friday in pre-market trading.

Autonomy's founder and chief executive Mike Lynch, who owns an 8.2 percent stake in the company, could walk away with £582-million ($960-million).

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In a bold move, Apotheker -- who took the job as HP CEO in November -- has decided to spin off the company's PC unit that accounted for 30 percent of sales in the most recent quarter. But it's not hard to understand why, since HP's PC unit, despite being the largest in the U.S., generated only a 5.9 percent operating margin.

Jefferies & Co. upgraded its rating on shares of Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) to hold from underperform and raised its price target to $25 from $22.

Hewlett-Packard Co's personal computer business may be too big for Asia's technology companies to swallow whole, but potential suitors are out there should HP decide to break the group into parts, industry sources said on Friday.

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) could lose a major chunk of its revenues by exiting its PC business and closing down webOS, a Wall Street analyst said in a note to clients.