Another 6,400 workers to lose jobs at HP

Hewlett-Packard Co. is cutting 6,400 more workers — or 2 percent of the company's total work force. It will come over the next year as part of HP's huge acquisition of Electronic Data Systems.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP was already dumping 24,600 workers as part of that acquisition before announcing the extra cuts Tuesday.

The announcement came in a conference call with analysts to discuss HP’s fiscal second-quarter results.

HP’s profit dropped 17 percent to $1.72 billion, while sales fell 3 percent to $27.4 billion, in the latest period.