This Week’s 5 Smartest Stock Moves: Facebook Inc (FB) and More

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HP was married too long to its fledgling webOS platform, and naturally it’s been meandering as a Windows ally. Throwing more weight behind the open-source Android mobile operating system will give HP the diversification that it needs. Mobile computing in the form of tablets and smartphones is growing at the PC market’s expense, and HP needs to have some more skin in that game.

What took HP so long to finally follow in the footsteps of Samsung and other Android backers? Right now, that doesn’t matter. The chatter indicates that HP is moving in the right direction now.

The article This Week’s 5 Smartest Stock Moves originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Rick Aristotle Munarriz.

Longtime Fool contributor Rick Aristotle Munarriz owns shares of Netflix. The Motley Fool recommends DreamWorks Animation, Facebook, and Netflix. The Motley Fool owns shares of Facebook and Netflix.

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