Things got quite exciting in London at noon on Tuesday. First Kweku Adoboli, the rogue trader formerly employed by UBS, was sentenced to seven years in prison for fraud. Then Hewlett-Packardaccused the former management of Autonomy, the UK software company, of wrongdoing. The moral appeared to be, as a New York journalist wryly tweeted: “Don’t trust the British.
上周二中午,在伦敦,情况变得十分热闹有趣。首先,流氓交易员、瑞银(UBS)前员工奎库·阿多博利(Kweku Adoboli)因欺诈罪被判7年徒刑。然后是惠普(HP)指控英国软件公司Autonomy的前管理层犯下不法行为。其中隐含的意味似乎是,正如一位纽约记者在Twitter上发帖挖苦的一样:“不要信任英国人。
Hold on a minute, though. This is HP we’re talking about, a company that has a sorry record of overpaying for acquisitions and then writing off most of the value shortly afterwards. If Autonomy inflated its value in its $11bn sale to HP last year, which it firmly denies, it was bought by the world’s biggest deflater.
不过,请稍等片刻。我们谈论的是惠普,这家公司有着出高价收购、随后不久又减记大部分价值的糟糕记录。如果说在去年惠普以110亿美元收购Autonomy时,Autonomy虚报价值(该公司对此矢口否认),那么收购方就是全球最大的减记高手。
As Meg Whitman, HP’s latest chief executive, disclosed a writedown of $8.8bn on the Autonomy deal, she made it sound like a unique scandal. But three months ago, she wrote down $8bn on its $13.9bn purchase of Electronic Data Systemsin 2008. Not even that collapse matched Léo Apotheker, her predecessor, who wrote off more than the $1.2bn HP had paid for Palm in 2010.
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