{"id":4282,"date":"2024-02-12T18:58:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T18:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/hewlett-packard-lost-4bn-over-autonomy-acquisition-london-court-told\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T18:58:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T18:58:04","slug":"hewlett-packard-lost-4bn-over-autonomy-acquisition-london-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/hewlett-packard-lost-4bn-over-autonomy-acquisition-london-court-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Hewlett-Packard lost $4bn over Autonomy acquisition, London court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HP\u2019s lawyers tell high court that software firm\u2019s co-founder Mike Lynch fraudulently inflated its value<\/p>\n<p>Hewlett-Packard lost more than $4bn (\u00a33.2bn) over its acquisition of British software firm Autonomy because of an elaborate fraud masterminded by its co-founder Mike Lynch to inflate the company\u2019s value, HP\u2019s lawyers told a London court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>HP is seeking to recoup losses in a lawsuit brought against Lynch, once hailed as Britain\u2019s answer to Bill Gates, and Autonomy\u2019s former chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/feb\/12\/hewlett-packard-lost-4bn-over-autonomy-acquisition-london-court-told\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP\u2019s lawyers tell high court that software firm\u2019s co-founder Mike Lynch fraudulently inflated its value Hewlett-Packard lost more than $4bn (\u00a33.2bn) over its acquisition of British software firm Autonomy because of an elaborate fraud masterminded by its co-founder Mike Lynch to inflate the company\u2019s value, HP\u2019s lawyers told a London court on Monday. HP is &#8230; <a title=\"Hewlett-Packard lost $4bn over Autonomy acquisition, London court told\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/hewlett-packard-lost-4bn-over-autonomy-acquisition-london-court-told\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hewlett-Packard lost $4bn over Autonomy acquisition, London court told\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}