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What Went Down In The Second GOP Debate
Fiorina ‘Doubled’ Size Of HP – By Buying Another Company
Trump is right about one thing: Fiorina doubled the size of Hewlett-Packard mostly by buying Compaq, not by attracting more customers. That merger is now widely seen as a failure. Perhaps the definitive account of Fiorina’s time as CEO of HP — written while she was still there — is Carol Loomis’s 2005 profile in Fortune.
An hour and a half in (and yet not halfway), we’ve got our first question on the economy. It goes to Trump, just as nearly a quarter of questions have (9 of 39 and counting).
A quarter of all the talking is now coming via interruptions, and the moderators are still sticking with “please … please” to try to take back the mic.