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Hewlett-Packard Co. is suing Mark Hurd, the chief executive it ousted last month, to stop him from taking a top job at rival Oracle Corp. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO — In naming Mark V. Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, as Oracle’s new co-president, Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle’s chief executive and largest shareholder, has put his money where his controversial mouth is. (more)

Reporting from Moraga, Calif. — Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and her Republican opponent Carly Fiorina met in a contentious first debate Wednesday that seethed with disputes over their records and covered a broad range of issues from the economy to climate change to abortion rights. (more)

Washington, D.C., can get hot and muggy in August, which is why lawmakers leave for most of the month, and many staffers, lobbyists and other industry-types also clear out of town in search of cooler climes. (more)

With the Hewlett-Packard board and former CEO Mark Hurd’s crisis management teams muddying the waters with charges and counter-charges, only a few things about Hurd — and the controversy surrounding him — are clear. (more)

The woman whose sexual harassment complaint led to the resignation of Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd has had featured roles in a string of racy movies, was a “cougar” on a reality TV show and was used as a role model in the book “The Girlfriend Test.” (more)

Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Mark Hurd resigned as chief executive officer following an investigation into a sexual harassment claim that found violations of the company’s standards of business conduct. (more)

The U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and her Republican challenger Carly Fiorina remains close in California. (more)

“A party divided” is the Democrats’ attack line, as they have argued for months that the Tea Party is provoking a civil war within the Republican Party. But on Tuesday in Arkansas, most of the political discord was within their own ranks. (more)

SAN DIEGO — Vyomesh I. Joshi, the head of Hewlett-Packard’s $24 billion printing empire, relaxes by taking long walks on the beaches near his home here. And, for a while, it seemed as if he might end up spending more time strolling the sand than moving ink and toner. (more)

SHANGHAI — Stung by labor shortages and a rash of suicides this year at its massive factories in southern China, Foxconn Technology said Wednesday that it would immediately raise the salaries of many of its Chinese workers by 33 percent. (more)

California’s GOP primary polls are moving back and forth so dramatically some observers might have whiplash.  Any conventional wisdom about how the U.S. Senate and governor’s races will shape up should be tossed out the window until the real tally on June 8.  Consider this: two weeks ago former Congressman Tom Campbell held a 11 percentage point lead over Carly Fiorina in the GOP governor’s primary. That lead has now incredibly evaporated into a 23 point deficit if SurveyUSA’s new poll results are accurate. (more)

America’s dairy farmers could soon find themselves in the computer business, with the manure from their cows possibly powering the vast data centers of companies like Google and Microsoft. While not immediately intuitive, the idea plays on two trends: the building of computing centers in more rural locales, and dairy farmers’ efforts to deal with cattle waste by turning it into fuel. (more)

Maybe it was the Carly Fiorina ad depicting Sen. Boxer’s Orwellian head breaking through the Capitol dome; or perhaps it was the senator’s reiteration that marijuana legalization advocates can go suck a bong. Whatever the cause, Boxer is facing her toughest reelection campaign since getting elected, and Barack Obama now has to go westward to the Land of California, where he will wine and dine people out of their money and Boxer back into office. “A ticket to the dinner is $17,600 per person, a figure arrived at by combining half the maximum $30,400 contribution to a national party committee combined with the maximum $2,400 donation to a candidate,” reports the LA Independent. Republicans, however, aren’t worried. According the Independent, “a poll of 1,102 likely voters conducted March 9-16 by the Public Policy Institute of California found that Boxer trailed former Rep. Tom Campbell, 44 percent to 43 percent, and led former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina, 44 percent to 43 percent, and DeVore 46 percent to 40 percent.” (more)

Republican Senate candidate Tom Campbell hit back Monday at primary opponent Carly Fiorina for saying that he does not support Israel, calling her accusations “desperate” and “bizarre.” (more)

Millions of Gmail users opened their inboxes today to find a new — and mysterious — feature waiting for them: Google Buzz. (more)

Samsung Electronics has overtaken Hewlett-Packard as the world’s biggest technology company by sales, a sign of how strongly some South Korean companies have bounced back from the economic downturn. (more)