HP’s fight with Autonomy gets personal
And vice versa. HP is suing Autonomy’s former CEO and CFO for $5 billion, citing fraud. They, in turn, are suing HP for almost $150 million in damages, citing ‘false and negligent statements’ made about them on HP’s behalf. You know the story; HP spends crazy money on Autonomy, a darling of the UK tech sector. […]
HP Discover–Awesome Potential But Massive Challenges
I recently spent three days in Frankfurt attending HP’s European event, Discover. (Disclosure – HP contributed towards T&E for the event). Obviously the event was always going to be fascinating, coming as it did only a week or two after the bombshell around Autonomy and the large questions around both
‘Autonomy Inside’ matters at Hewlett Packard
The Hewlett Packard marketing machine was busy last week, assuring the world that the company’s £7.1bn ($11.7bn) acquisition of Autonomy still made sense despite an eye-watering financial write down and unseemly public squabbling with the Cambridge company’s former management. HP CEO Meg Whitman used her keynote at HP Discover in Frankfurt to assert that the […]
