Neowin News Feed for: Xerox

Trimming the fat: Xerox plans to reduce workforce by 15%

Paul Hill — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 03:46:01 +0000

Xerox has become the latest tech company to say that it will be laying off staff and reorganizing its structure. The company had 20,500 employees at the start of 2023 and 15% of those will be let go. Read more...

Xerox gives up on HP acquisition due to COVID-19 concerns

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:16:01 +0000

After relentlessly pursuing an acquisition of rival HP, Xerox has announced that it is no longer moving forward with the takeover attempts due to concerns over the current coronavirus outbreak. Read more...

HP's Board of Directors tells shareholders to reject Xerox's offer

João Carrasqueira — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 17:34:01 +0000

After Xerox officialized its tender offer for all outstanding HP shares, the latter company is telling shareholders to reject the offer, saying it would create an "irresponsible capital structure". Read more...

Xerox makes official tender offer for HP at $24 per share

João Carrasqueira — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 23:42:01 +0000

In its continued attempts to take over HP's business, Xerox has now launched a tender offer for all outstanding HP shared, valuing the company at $24 per share, in both cash and Xerox shares. Read more...

Larry Tesler, creator of copy and paste, dies at 74

Paul Hill — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:34:02 +0000

The creator of the cut, copy, and paste functions, Larry Tesler, died on Monday at the age of 74 according to one of his previous employers, Xerox. He also worked at Apple, Amazon and Yahoo!. Read more...

Xerox raises acquisition bid for HP to nearly $35 billion

Jay Bonggolto — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:16:01 +0000

Xerox announced today that it intends to raise its acquisition offer for HP to $24 per share, for a total value of nearly $35 billion. The company will launch the tender offer on or around March 2. Read more...

Xerox is moving forward with its attempts to take over HP

João Carrasqueira — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:18:01 +0000

Xerox today announced that it's not done trying to absorb HP's business, and it has nominated a slate of directors to replace the entire board of directors at HP during the next shareholder meeting. Read more...

Xerox will continue its attempt to take over HP by bidding directly to shareholders

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:00:01 +0000

In the latest development of the ongoing saga between Xerox and HP, in which the former is attempting to buy the latter, Xerox has confirmed that it will take its bid directly to HP shareholders. Read more...

Xerox PARC: the minds behind laser printing, GUI, ethernet, and more

Julio Franco — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:18:40 +0000

Launched in 1970, Xerox's PARC has played an instrumental role in the engineering of laser printing and many of the technologies that compose the PC you're reading this on: ethernet, the mouse, GUI... Read more...

Xerox profits and revenue rise during first quarter

Paul Ferson — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:51:03 +0000

Xerox managed to increase its profit margins during the first quarter of 2011, information released by the company states. The Xerox Corporation's revenue for the quarter soared, and costs relating to the acquisition of Affiliated... Read more...

Xerox tool analyzes text to improve search results

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:07:58 +0000

Xerox researchers have developed a search tool, dubbed FactSpotter, that analyzes the underlying grammar of a text in order to infer additional information, such as whether ambiguous words are being used as nouns or verbs,... Read more...

Microsoft inks patent deal with Fuji Xerox

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:15:56 +0000

Microsoft has inked a patent swap deal with Fuji Xerox that paves the way for the companies to use each other's technology. The companies did not disclose financial terms of the agreement, except to say... Read more...

Xerox works deal with start-up to rival Google

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 05:58:35 +0000

Xerox Corp. research subsidiary Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has struck a licensing deal with Powerset Inc. in San Francisco. The two are developing a search engine based on natural language processing, in hopes that... Read more...

Palm and Xerox Settle Graffiti Dispute

Dave Legg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:24:09 +0000

Palm and Xerox have been locked in a battle for nine years over the Graffiti software (known as Unistrokes from Xerox ) which allows users to input data by writing alphabet like characters onto their... Read more...

Xerox tracks your photocopies

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:41:17 +0000

Giant photocopying firm Xerox has admitted designing its color photocopiers so that they put a hidden code on your copy that will help the US government identify you According to Peter Crean, a senior research... Read more...

Xerox To Appeal PalmOne Ruling

Tue, 25 May 2004 19:59:20 +0000

A federal court ruling that dismissed a seven-year-old patent infringement lawsuit against PalmOne's Graffiti handwriting recognition system will be appealed by Stamford, Connecticut-based Xerox Corporation. "We intend to appeal," Xerox spokesperson Christa Carone told... Read more...

Xerox Revolutionizes Displays

Mon, 24 May 2004 17:30:09 +0000

Xerox Corp. spends about $1 billion a year on research and development, gambling that it can predict the future of IT. Not surprisingly, most of the research is dedicated to the Stamford, Conn., company's core... Read more...

Court sides with palmOne in Xerox patent suit

Sat, 22 May 2004 03:15:15 +0000

A New York State judge on Friday sided with handheld computer maker palmOne Inc. in its lengthy patent infringement battle with Xerox Corp., ruling that Xerox's handwriting recognition software patent is invalid. Xerox, the office... Read more...

Xerox to license document software

Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:42:35 +0000

Xerox is expected to announce new document processing software next week that could improve the efficiency of content management systems. According to a statement from the company, scientists from Xerox Research Center Europe... Read more...

Xerox wins Palm handwriting case

Fri, 21 Dec 2001 05:56:55 +0000

Xerox has established in court that it is the inventor of Graffiti handwriting technology used in Palm devices. The next step is to establish damages which, considering the numbers of Palms sold, will run into... Read more...

Xerox to turn PARC loose

Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:32:27 +0000

From the people who started the graphical user interface revolution, invented the mouse, heck you may as well say the "whole ball of wax", comes news that Xerox will finally turn its famed Palo Alto... Read more...