Autonomy Corporation

The allegations arose out of HP's acquisition of Autonomy Corporation Plc, a British software company. The complaint maintains that HP acquired Autonomy without doing almost any due diligence, and shortly after the acquisition, HP learned about Autonomy's accounting practices which inflated the ...

It was not long ago that we updated this list to include Microsoft's blockbuster acquisition of LinkedIn for $26 billion. Big purchases haven't stopped there, however. At least one more – SoftBank's acquisition of ARM – emerged in the range of tens of billions of dollars. In comparison, Verizon's purchase of ...

It may be April Fool's Day, but I'm sure former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and HP execs aren't laughing. HP filed suit in London this week against Lynch and former Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain over alleged accounting improprieties to the tune of $5.1B. Lynch and company's response? Counter-sue ...

But by August 2011, when its takeover by HP was announced, Autonomy was also among the most shorted stocks on the FTSE 100, with traders betting that its years of rapid growth could not be sustained. Autonomy was valued as a fast-growing pure software company, and any hint of pressure would have ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — In November 2012, Hewlett-Packard Co. stunned investors with news that it was writing down almost $9 billion of its $11.1 billion acquisition of the British software company, Autonomy Corp. H-P HPQ, -3.52% attributed the hefty write-down to “serious accounting ...

Hewlett-Packard and lawyers representing its shareholders have agreed to settle litigation over its troubled $11.1bn acquisition of software company Autonomy, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. Under the terms of the settlement, involving three lawsuits, lawyers for the shareholders have ...

Hewlett-Packard's long-running investigation into claims of accounting irregularities by the former management team of Autonomy, the British software company it bought for more than £7.1bn, has concluded that the firm's main UK trading company made 80% less profits and 54% less revenues than ...

Hewlett-Packard is taking an $8.8 billion charge as a result of what it called serious accounting improprieties that occurred at U.K. software company ... disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations at Autonomy Corporation plc that occurred prior to HP's acquisition of Autonomy," Whitman said on the ...

Mr Lynch's business, which specialises in software that can search "unstructured data" such as video, was a small entrepreneurial company – part of a growing tech hub in Cambridge nicknamed Silicon Fen. But Autonomy hasn't been performing the way the computer giant had hoped. HP wants big deals, ...

It was not long ago that we updated this list to include Microsoft's blockbuster acquisition of LinkedIn for $26 billion. Big purchases haven't ...

The disruption of the IT and software industry by the rapid rise of ... most notably the ill-fated purchase of Autonomy Corporation in 2011 for $11 ...

It may be April Fool's Day, but I'm sure former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and HP execs aren't laughing. HP filed suit in London this week ...

Mike Lynch, the founder of the British software company Autonomy, accused by Hewlett-Packard of a multibillion-pound accounting fraud, ...

An email from a former finance director of UK software group Autonomy suggested the company was heading for a financial "plane crash" ...

... investors with news that it was writing down almost $9 billion of its $11.1 billion acquisition of the British software company, Autonomy Corp.

The core of the strategy was to combine Autonomy with Vertica, a smaller enterprise software company bought by HP earlier in the year.

Cambridge-based software company Autonomy Corporation was bought for more than £10bn by Hewlett-Packard. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA.

... misrepresentations at Autonomy Corporation plc that occurred prior to ... Apotheker planned to make HP more of a software-based company, ...

The entire enterprise software space is a giant stinking mess, and it's going to get even messier if the vendors don't start embracing the new spirit of collaboration and social technologies that represent the modern data workflow. Earlier today, HP CEO Meg Whitman declared that the Autonomy acquisition ...

... misrepresentations at Autonomy Corporation plc that occurred prior to ... One bright spot was software revenue, which increased 14 percent ...

Mr Lynch's business, which specialises in software that can search "unstructured data" such as video, was a small entrepreneurial company ...

Tech investor Mike Lynch OBE, who is most well-known as the co-founder of Autonomy Corporation, which was the UK's largest software ...

Tech investor Mike Lynch OBE, who is most well-known as the co-founder of Autonomy Corporation, which was the UK's largest software ...

He is the co-founder of Autonomy Corporation, who specialised in the ... the UK's largest and most successful software business by 2010.

Michael Lynch, born in Essex and founder of software company Autonomy Corporation, was found to be worth £469million. Picture: ANDY ...

It was not long ago that we updated this list to include Microsoft's blockbuster acquisition of LinkedIn for $26 billion. Big purchases haven't ...

... that took the Cambridge software business into American hands claimed ... and sellers of securities of Autonomy Corporation plc (Autonomy) ...

The disruption of the IT and software industry by the rapid rise of ... most notably the ill-fated purchase of Autonomy Corporation in 2011 for $11 ...

Mike Lynch, the founder of the British software company Autonomy, accused by Hewlett-Packard of a multibillion-pound accounting fraud, ...

An email from a former finance director of UK software group Autonomy suggested the company was heading for a financial "plane crash" ...

... investors with news that it was writing down almost $9 billion of its $11.1 billion acquisition of the British software company, Autonomy Corp.

The core of the strategy was to combine Autonomy with Vertica, a smaller enterprise software company bought by HP earlier in the year.

Cambridge-based software company Autonomy Corporation was bought for more than £10bn by Hewlett-Packard. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA.

... outright misrepresentations at Autonomy Corporation plc that occurred prior to HP's ... The problem is that Autonomy is a software company.

The potential deal would include a variety of software components the old HP accumulated over the years through a series of acquisitions, most notably the ill-fated purchase of Autonomy Corporation in 2011 for $11 billion. Although the arrangement with ...