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Probe into Autonomy allegations could take years - report

Mike Lynch splashing cash on m'learned friends

HP wanted to offload Autonomy on SAP, says SAP co-chief

Updated But German software firm was 'never seriously interested'

UK financial watchdog bends Autonomy over for fresh probe

Financial Reporting Council sniffs allegations surrounding Brit software biz

UK Serious Fraud Office queues up to probe HP's Autonomy allegations

...using Autonomy's own software
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HP knew Autonomy was a duff buy, claim HP shareholders in $1bn suit

HP ignored numerous warning signs about the state of Autonomy's finances and accounting irregularities at the firm before acquiring it for $11bn, shareholders have alleged in a $1bn lawsuit. The investors are suing HP's current CEO Meg Whitman, her predecessor Leo Apotheker, former HP chairman Ray Lane and Autonomy founder Mike …
Mike Lynch

Lynch and his Autonomy inner circle depict selves as crime kingpins

The brash sales culture at Brit software biz Autonomy, since controversially sold to HP, was portrayed by co-founder Mike Lynch and his inner circle as being similar to organised crime in a prank corporate video which surfaced recently. The five minutes of hilarity - no honestly, it really is very tasteless funny - was quietly …
Mike Lynch

Autonomy founder attacks HP fraud charges with new website

Claims to represent former management team

Autonomy to HP: bollocks

‘We have been ambushed’
Mike Lynch
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HP dangles axe over Autonomy salesmen, cash wad over coders

HP plans to lay off sales staff at Brit software subsidiary Autonomy while seeking to shore up the small biz's R&D. An internal memo penned by Robert Youngjohns, an exec hired from Microsoft last September, started with the good news first and claimed the tech titan is pumping more cash into software development overall. "As …
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'HP has just days to cough what it knew about Autonomy'

HP will have to bare all in its beef with Autonomy's former management before the year is out, a former SEC advisor has suggested. Hewlett-Packard took an $8.8bn write-down last month after alleging accounting errors were made at Brit biz Autonomy in the weeks before HP acquired it for $10.7bn in 2011. In turn Autonomy co- …

'Brit Bill Gates' was powerless to stop HP's Autonomy acquisition

Lynch suggests HP mega-bucks forced marriage

HP: AUTONOMY 'misrepresented' its value by $5 BILLION, calls in SEC

UK fraud squad too. Total writedown $8.8 BEEELLION!!

HP hires Youngjohns to head up Autonomy

Tries to counter cool winds blowing through HP's software biz

Lawsuit launched against HP following Autonomy catastrophe

Mad Leo, Whitman both named by shareholders' lawyers

'Brit Bill Gates' Lynch: Only Mad Leo Apotheker understood Autonomy

'I'm not going to be HP's scapegoat'. Errm ...

HP finally swallows Autonomy

Looks a bit queasy, starts doing little eggy burps

Hits keep on coming: HP buys Autonomy for $11bn cash

Brit techbiz poster-boy Autonomous no more

HP extends deadline as Autonomy shareholders drag feet

What could lie behind this odd reluctance?
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HP's public cloud revamp to float down the road not taken

Coming upgrades to HP's public cloud will see it pursue a different market from that dominated by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft – and that's a good thing for both punters and the company. Like every other traditional IT seller, HP has been slow to wake to the rise of low-cost utility computing and storage, but on Friday the …

Opinion

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Eddie Pacey

Does it do what it says on the tin? Credit insurance, that is
Funnel of cash. Credit: via SXC – http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Leonardini
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Dale Vile

Corporate decision-making's got nowt on non-techie MDs

Alexandre Mesguich

Cloud, virtualisation, mobile tech require fatter pipes

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