Meg Whitman Says HP Was Defrauded By Autonomy; HP Stock Plunges

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @05:15AM from the damn-english-ravines dept.

McGruber writes "CNBC is reporting that Meg Whitman claims HP was defrauded in its purchase of Autonomy. 'We believed there is a willful effort on the part of certain members of Autonomy management to mislead shareholders when Autonomy was a publicly traded company, and to mislead potential buyers including HP,' Whitman said. 'We stand by the forensic review that we've seen,' she added. I wish her the same level of success I had when I filed an eBay claim." Also covered at SlashBI, which names the write-down damage: $8.8 billion.

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Re:Meg, Carly by localman57 · 2012-11-20 05:28 · Score: 5, Funny

Yes, but you can use eBay to buy knock off toner cartridges, thereby denying HP of revenue.
Re:Meg, Carly by jandrese · 2012-11-20 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

It's HP, printing money would end up costing you more in ink than the counterfeit bills would be worth.

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Re:Meg, Carly by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2012-11-20 06:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Look at the picture on CNBC.
I'm pretty certain, based on this evidence, that Meg Whitman is Steve Ballmer in drag.

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