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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Autonomy Accounting Issue Is HP's Latest $8.8 Billion Disaster
via readwrite.com
A year after Hewlett-Packard's head-scratching acquisition of semantic-search company Autonomy for $10.3 billion, the move seems to have blown up in HP's face. HP is admitting today "serious accounting improprieties" by Autonomy.
Serious indeed. HP's fourth-quarter earnings will reflect an $8.8 billion write-down related to the improprieties. Overall, HP is reporting a 4Q loss of $6.9 billion, a bad skid for a company that seems more out of control every day.
When the deal was initially brokered by HP's then-CEO Léo Apotheker in August 2011, there were a lot of "what the hell?" comments flying around. HP had just bought a UK business that did not seem to fit HP's business model.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Quicken 2013 Review
via forbes.com
Starting today, the new version of Quicken is available for purchase. While Mint.com and other online services are now very popular for tracking personal finances, I’ve stuck with Quicken for many years. This desktop software from Intuit has many advanced features — and basic features dealing with investments — that will never be built into Mint.com. For people serious about tracking personal finances, Quicken is the only software to use.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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