UPDATED 19:50 PM EST, February 21, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Slumping personal computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co.'s latest quarterly results provided a glimmer of hope after months of gloomy news.
The fiscal first-quarter numbers announced Thursday topped the forecast of HP's own management, as well as stock market analysts.
That's an about-face from the previous two quarters, when HP announced losses totaling $15.3 billion as the company accounted for past acquisitions gone awry, to the shock of Wall Street.
