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With HP's TouchPad all but expired, could Amazon provide a true competitor to Apple's premium tablet product? There is little doubt that Amazon will launch a tablet, but how it is marketed is the key to success.

There has been speculation over the past five days as to the significance of HP’s announcement that it intends to buy UK-based Autonomy for US$ 10.7 billion. Questions over the wisdom of the deal are rife, but ultimately, the answer to the general question as to what it is all about was provided by HP CEO Léo Apotheker in the initial announcement.

A lot of HP TouchPad buyers probably got their hearts broken after HP announced its plans to spin off its PC business and drop support for webOS altogether. This sparked a handful of price drops, with the TouchPad retailing for firesale prices as low as $99 in most online stores and retail establishments. But with the TouchPad selling like hotcakes -- and running out of stock before you can say "touchpad" -- this can actually be a good opportunity for developers to resurrect the platform.

The biggest news of the week came when HP announced its intentions to buy Information Management and Customer Experience giant Autonomy. Information is in, and hardware (unless you are Apple or Google) is out.

Autonomy, who only recently added Iron Mountain to its fold, is the last of the big, independent Enterprise CMS vendors. The company recorded US$ 870 mil in 2010 revenues and has made strong progress selling cloud-based services.

Along with a successful SharePoint in the Enterprise Tweet Jam (read the archive here), this week also offered some great SharePoint thinking, including:

• Is SharePoint a Savior for Information Management?
• The Right Way to Approach SharePoint 2010

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• Socializing SharePoint: A Look at 4 Leading Social Software Integrations
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• Firefox Versions 6, 7, 8 Available for Download Early
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• Oracle Outlines Fatwire's Customer Experience, Web CMS Roadmap #CXM

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• Why Enterprise Content Management and Google Docs Are Not the Same
• Confirmed: HP Offers to Acquire Autonomy for $10.2 Bil in Cash
• The Future of Social Computing in SharePoint
  
• Publishing for Tablets: Data Formats for Fixed, Flowable Content
• Information Management: 5 Taxonomy Must Haves for Your Organization

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As digital advertising grows to an estimated US$ 72 billion market in 2011 measuring, managing and optimizing this spend has become a priority for Adobe. A reorganization announced today puts Brad Rencher, currently in charge of Adobe's Omniture business unit, out front in this domain and overseeing the company's customer experience management (CXM) solutions, largely got via the Day Software acquisition.

If anything is certain about the news that Hewlett-Packard (news, site) is to stop making WebOS devices, and will probably spin off its PC business, it’s that Michael Dell is a funny man. On news of the decision by HP, which followed its announcement that it intends to buy Autonomy, he went into Tweet mode.

HP's third quarter earnings release confirms the offer to acquire information management software vendor Autonomy. As CMSWire readers know, Autonomy is also the proud owner of the assets once known as Interwoven. This makes for yet another exciting purchase in our sector, most recently following Oracle's acquisition of Fatwire Software.

Could it really be true? Is HP (news, site) really in the market for enterprise information management giant Autonomy (news, site)?

Social networking is big. Even in China, where access to information is supposedly filtered and censored strictly, hundreds of millions of netizens use social networks for personal and business purposes. Sources from the financial sector say that the Chinese government is keen on securing enough Facebook shares of stock in order to have some clout in the company.

As tablet makers struggle to come up with a way around Apple's dominance, HP (news, site) thinks its new magazine/store will help users choose the best apps.

 The next pretender to the iPad throne launches in a few weeks. Will HP's (news, site) TouchPad device fare better than any of the others? A series of videos is out to explain what makes it different.

While the standard response to the question as to whether SaaS, cloud computing or outsourcing are the best thing for your company is "yes," HP (news, site) has released a suite of software for CIOs that will measure just that and provide in-depth insight into how your IT deployments are actually performing.

Anyone who watches these things will know that high-end software is a tough, dirty business and not for the faint of heart, and Larry Ellison knows that better than most. So it will interesting to see how he reacts to IBM’s (news, site) new financial incentives to companies that want to move up from Oracle to IBM.

There were a number of good things released recently in the SMB space including news from Zoho that it has made its Meetings tool Mac-friendly, while WorkSimple has released a free version of its social goals management app. Blue Tie through Breeze Social helps SMBs start effective social marketing campaigns, while HP offers enterprise print management to SMBs. Research also shows that SMBs are turning their back on the desktop.

This week, we get a look at how SMBs are using social media in new research from the SMB Group, Intermedia introduces backup services for companies that are looking at moving to the cloud, VMware is handed Moxy services by EMC, while both Dell and Acer have launched new servers to help SMBs deal with the growth in the amount of data that even small companies are getting.