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Peter Svensson
11/20/12 8:14 PM
Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Tuesday that it’s the victim of a multibillion-dollar fraud at the hands of a British company it bought last year that lied about its finances.
HP CEO Meg Whitman said executives at Autonomy Corp. “willfully” boosted the company’s figures through various accounting tricks, which persuaded HP to pay $9.7 billion for the company in October 2011.
Autonomy’s former CEO said HP’s allegations are false.
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As state funding for California schools decreases, a growing number of Silicon Valley leaders is pitching in.
Former eBay CEO and 2010 California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman announced Tuesday that her foundation will invest $2.5 million into the tech-centered Summit Charter School system. The Whitman- Harsh Family Foundation also will match contributions worth up to another $2.5 million.
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Former eBay CEO and gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is expected to speak at a private event in Redwood City on Monday.Whitman is scheduled to address a group of about 50 female entrepreneurs and businesswomen at a women’s executive roundtable discussion and dinner hosted by the Bay Area Council, vice president of communications Joe Arellano said.The invitation-only event will begin at 6 p.m. at the Chantilly Restaurant in Redwood City, located at 3001 El Camino Real.
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If you wonder how it was that Meg Whitman's former maid got top-notch legal representation and became a major part of the California gubernatorial election with practically overnight, well wonder no more. The California nurses' union was behind the whole thing:
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1. If you spot anybody wielding weapons and threatening passers-by at the polling place, then that means one of two things: Either (1) Obama is still president and the New Black Panther Party is at it again, or (2) Dale Peterson just lost his election to Alabama’s Agriculture Commission.
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Tight California gubernatorial and US Senate races jostle memory
10/01/10 12:00 AM
On election night in 1982, California Democrats gathered in downtown Los Angeles’ Biltmore Hotel for what they hoped would be victory celebrations in two intense, very tight contests for governor and U.S. senator.
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On election night in 1982, California Democrats gathered in downtown Los Angeles’ Biltmore Hotel for what they hoped would be victory celebrations in two intense, very tight contests for governor and U.S. senator.
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In Washington I'm often asked how many seats Republicans will pick up in the House and whether they'll win a majority in the Senate. But I'm seldom asked anything about the 37 races for governor that will be decided next month (except for Georgia, which will have a runoff if no candidate tops 50 percent). Yet governorships can be just as important in politics and public policy as seats in Congress.
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In 1992, the young governor of Arkansas blasted former Gov. Jerry Brown of California for his tax-and-spend ways during the Democratic presidential primary debates.
And Meg Whitman, who is running against Brown for governor this year, isn’t going to let anyone in California forget it:
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SurveyUSA polled the California statewide races for San Francisco’s KPIX, a television station for one of the most safe cities in the state for Democrats. This is Nancy Pelosi’s own district here. Any bias introduced into this poll won’t be from the right.
So it’s notable when this poll shows Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman ahead of Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown.
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