24 Sep 2011

New boss at Hewlett Packard

4:28 am on 24 September 2011

Hewlett Packard has announced a new chief executive.

It is bringing in the former boss of eBay, Meg Whitman, to try to turn around the struggling firm.

Ms Whitman is replacing Leo Apotheker, who has been in the top job for less than a year but has overseen a collapse in the share price and a fall in sales.

She once ran for governor of California and is credited with turning the internet auction site eBay into a global force before resigning from it in 2008.