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Investors may be most thankful that this is a quick week. The market is closed for Thanksgiving and will log just a half-day on Black Friday, but from today through Wednesday, traders will face a heavy slate of economic data and earnings news.

Among quarterly results scheduled for this holiday-shortened week, investors may be thankful for earnings results from Tyson Foods, the Arkansas-based poultry and meat producer. Analog Devices and Deere also are reporting.

Jodie Fisher, whose relationship with Mark Hurd helped bring about his ouster as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, has claimed that Hurd shared information about HP's buyout of Electronic Data Systems before it was made public.

Hewlett-Packard is unveiling the Palm Pre 2, a new version of the phone developed by Palm, which HP bought a month ago.

Shipments of personal computers missed forecasts in the third quarter, increasing by 7.6% rather than the 12.7% industry analysts had expected to see.

Late Tuesday, PC maker Hewlett-Packard forecast a healthy growth in earnings and sales for fiscal 2011, as the company expands into consulting and computer security services. But the company remained mum on who will fill its CEO slot.

Solving technical issues on your computer can be pricey if your warranty has expired, you've been downed by a virus or one of the accessories is on the blink. But on September 28, Hewlett Packard will host HP Expert Day, allowing frustrated computer owners to solve all those annoying glitches and...

Hewlett-Packard will probably have a new CEO in under a week. The candidate will likely come from inside the company, which would almost certainly allow the board of directors to speed through the process.

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) will purchase cybersecurity software company ArcSight (ARST) for $1.5 billion, or $43.50 a share. The deal will close by the end of this year, the companies said in a statement. "The combination of HP and ArcSight will provide clients with the ability to fortify their...

HP is close to a deal to buy security software maker ArcSight (ARST). The transaction would be worth about $1.5 billion, or a little more that $43 a share. That's a 24% premium over where ArcSight's shares traded on September 10.