Hewlett-Packard Takes $8.8 Billion Charge, Says It Was Duped in Autonomy Deal
Whitman. (Photo: Max Morse) Hewlett-Packard took an $8.8 billion charge against fourth-quarter earnings after uncovering "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright...
View ArticleThere Are Two Narratives on Hewlett-Packard’s $8.8 Billion Loss; Which One...
Lynch. (The Telegraph) In the hours since Hewlett-Packard stunned investors by announcing an $8.8 billion loss on its acquisition of Autonomy, competing narratives have emerged to describe just what...
View ArticleAutonomy Founder Crosses Meg Whitman Off His Christmas Card List
Lynch. (The Telegraph) Ever since Hewlett-Packard delivered its bombshell allegations against Autonomy, the search engine maker that HP acquired for $11.1 billion last year, the dispute between the...
View ArticleBooting Up: Happy Birthday to You, 2013
Cerf. (Wikipedia) Vint Cerf is wishing the modern-day Internet a happy 30th birthday today. [Google] Reddit had 37 billion page views and 400 million unique visitors in 2012. [Reddit] If the New Year...
View ArticleBooting Up: Sheryl Sandberg is Leaning in on Women, Work and Leadership
Former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill once asked Sheryl Sandberg if she was a "pom-pom girl." If Mr. O'Neill were alive today, the Facebook COO would tell him she's "a pom-pom girl for feminism,"...
View ArticleNow We Know Why Penis-Size App Predicktor Wasn’t Called the Chubby Checker
(Photo: Wikipedia) Last week, Betabeat highlighted the work of a Canadian doctor who developed a smartphone app to predict the size of a man's member. Enter a dude's height, shoe size, "butt size," age...
View ArticleChubby Checker Can Sue HP Over Dick Measuring App That Bears His Name, Judge...
Twisting with the joy of a potential payout (Photo: Getty) It's hard out there for a 1960s R&B star, especially when his name is another word for an erection. In February, we learned that Chubby...
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