Any views on where this stock might be headed?
Its already down by 250 from its high of just a few weeks back and if i knew anything about charts,WHICH I DON,T,maybe it is time to cash a few in

I would have thought the Lynch/BLNX connection was what was made earlier.

Lynch has around 6% shareholding in BLNX , Autonomy has 12% shareholding in BLNX as at August 2012.

I do hope this isn't true - I used to quite admire him and Autonomy for that matter.

Skinny hope is a fine thing Lynch OBE according to his directorship profile in the BLNX annual report is also on the board of the BBC.

UBS trader sentenced to 7 years, hope UBS are paying for his keep in prison and not us taxpayers?

Autonomy misled HP about finances, Hewlett Packard says

From the above article :-

Mike Lynch told BBC News that the HP allegations were just a way of distracting attention from poor results.

"It's managed the company very badly," he said. "It lost around half the staff before I left and the whole of the management team, and the value of the company has now fallen and they've been forced to write it off."

"Today is the day they're announcing the worst results in the 70 year history of the business and I think there's a little bit of distraction going on here."

This reads like a financial institutional rogue's gallery!

In HP-Autonomy debacle, many advisers but little good advice

Wed Nov 21, 2012 3:52am GMT

(Reuters) - When Hewlett Packard acquired Autonomy last year for $11.1 billion, some 15 different financial, legal and accounting firms were involved in the transaction -- and none raised a flag about what HP said Tuesday was a major accounting fraud.

HP stunned Wall Street with the allegations about its British software unit and took an $8.8 billion writedown, the latest in a string of reversals for the storied company.

All these financial institutions involved seems to suggest that the old adage still applies. That is to say " too many cooks spoil the broth !"

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HP’s Accounting Claims Are Seen as Cover for Bad Deals

Hewlett-Packard Co.’s (HPQ) claims of financial improprieties at Autonomy Corp. have accounting experts questioning whether the allegations are an attempt to divert attention from yet another bad acquisition.

Mike Lynch points out, that in the economic downturn, HP axed a great many of Autonomy's top staff. It can hardly be a surprise, therefore, that their performance was sub par.+

HP has been acting like headless chicken. Once they were one of the most reputable companies in Electronic and telecommunication industry, now they jump from one industry to another, destroying the company.

They are fundamentally great, but the management and their structure are the problem.

Not the 1st and certainly, they won't be the last.

Insight - How a desperate HP suspended disbelief for Autonomy deal

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK/LONDON | Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:19am GMT

(Reuters) - For Leo Apotheker, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, a July 2011 meeting with Autonomy founder Mike Lynch at a chic seaside resort in France was pivotal to his effort to remake a storied technology giant.

In the nine months since taking the helm at HP, Apotheker had tried furiously to find a way to move the lumbering company away from its low-margin computer hardware business and into the lucrative corporate software and services arena. Apotheker was looking for a big, transformative acquisition, two people familiar with the situation said, and after overtures to several companies went nowhere, he set his sights on Autonomy.

How could HP find a $5bln gap in Autonomy’s value?

By Quentin Webb

The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own

How could Hewlett-Packard find a $5 billion-plus hole in an $11.1 billion deal? The U.S. tech giant claims to have uncovered all kinds of accounting nasties at Autonomy, the British software outfit it bought last year. But HP won’t say quite how the allegations – strongly denied by Autonomy’s ex-boss Mike Lynch – could produce such a colossal writedown. Breakingviews tries a spot of reverse-engineering to see how it could be possible.

Wot a load of crap , didn't HP look at everything mentioned in the link before buying ?

Haven't any of you seen the accountants note on results about "foward looking statements" ???

HP have cocked aquisitions up for years .... this is another one imo.

I quite agree!

Autonomy under SFO investigation

6:20AM GMT 12 Mar 2013

The disclosure last night from HP comes as the $11.1bn (£7.5bn) purchase of Autonomy looks set to dominate the PC maker's annual shareholder meeting in California later this week.

In a filing with US financial regulators, HP said the SFO informed it on February 6 that it had opened an investigation into HP's allegations that it was forced to overpay for Autonomy in August 2011.

Designed to cut HP's dependence on a shrinking PC market, the acquisition of Autonomy cost former chief executive Leo Apotheker his job and has angered shareholders. HP wrote down the value of Autonomy, which was founded by UK entrepreneur Mike Lynch, by $8.8bn late last year. Autonomy's former management denies any improper accounting.

rock and a hard place .... HP clearly bought a pup, and the only way they can even attempt to save face with their shareholders is to mount a post-event ridiculously expensive forensic investigation into AU ..... HP's auditors would/should already have done that when carrying out due diligence

little babes.
No worried for HP or others. RBS could claim more if the previous bosses were really interested, IMO.