HP makes changes in its policy with the aim of improving its presence in China

Hewlett Packard has carried out a change of business area for two of its executives with the Mission of assaulting the Chinese market and compete against Lenovo.

Those affected have been Todd Bradley, until now head of the area of PCs and printers, and Dion Weisler, senior Vice President and responsible for the business of HP Asia Pacific and Japan.

Starting from now, Bradley is responsible for leading a team that will have as a top priority to achieve a positioning of the brand in China and deal with its rival Lenovo, which hopes to build a large network of partners and enhance operations on the channel, collected in ZDNet.

In particular, the new position of Bradley is the EVP of strategic growth initiatives where it is expected to have more luck that at the stage that has just ended, since the sales of personal computers have been reduced in the second quarter of the year at 20 percent and the printers, have fallen by 1%.

In the case of Weisler, is responsible for the division of PCs and printers who leaves Bradley. Weisler, carrying from January 2012 at HP, has experience in China to have occupied for Lenovo the position of COO in the areas of mobile and Digital Home, as well as having worked in management positions with Acer.

Symantec makes progress on restructuring cuts 1,700 employees

With the reorganization plan that has put in place, the company expects to save between 220 and 250 million dollars.

While the last quarter's results of Symantec, which is already in its fiscal year 2014, has produced good numbers, the company is undergoing a process of corporate restructuring.

The objective is to strengthen its leading market solutions and seek strategic alliances, to which the CEO of the company, Steve Bennett, already said that numerous changes, there would be including the forecast of eliminating between 30% and 40% of managerial posts.

These days the company is preparing to lay off 1,700 employees in lathe, according to sources cited by the American middle AllThingsD.

The cuts are going to produce in two phases. Around 1,000 jobs will eliminate this month and other 700 will be removed in July.

In total, Symantec provides restructuring amounts to about 8% of 21,500 employees of the firm worldwide.

The company has assured that with this reorganization expected to save between 220 and 250 million dollars. The cuts must be complete before the end of the fiscal year 2014 that the manufacturer has started on March 30.

In an official statement issued by the company, Ellen Hayes, Symantec's spokesman, said that "there are several stages in the process, that we have divided between the layers Executive and positions of management at all levels of employees".