Carly Fiorina has joined the forthcoming Fox Business Network as a "contributor". The  TV station will start broadcasting on 15 October.

Fiorina of course is the former HP chief executive who failed at turning around the HP culture, spent $25bn on buying Compaq and sent the firm's stock price down the gutter. She essentially paved the way for Mark Hurd to come in and revive the company with a few strokes of cost cutting.

11 Oct 2007

Fiorina already got her revenge by publishing a book about her experiences that made all her former nemesis look like incompetent goons.

She no doubt will be well compensated, as people will want to hear whatever she has to say.

But will Fiorina use her power of the tube to further avenge her former foes? Apparently not: "I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here. I am at peace and my soul is intact," she noted in her first public appearance on 12 May, shortly after her ouster as HP chief.

At least Fiorina is already used to being in the spotlight.