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H.P. reports

lower profit

Battling a declining demand for personal computers, Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest maker of PCs, reported lower quarterly earnings. Its net income fell 16 percent, to $1.2 billion, or 63 cents a share, from the year-ago quarter. The company said revenue fell 6 percent, to $28.4 billion.

Provo newspaper

ends opinion page

The Provo Daily Herald said this week it no longer will produce a daily opinion page, the latest move at the paper that has included layoffs of 10 percent of its workforce, including its executive editor. In a story, the paper’s editors wrote that it would no longer have a daily opinion page but would still run a section on Sundays "made up of community voices."

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