Shareholders signal dissatisfaction with HP’s board

Hewlett-Packard chairman Ray Lane and several other directors narrowly kept their seats on the board as shareholders conveyed their displeasure over the botched US$11 billion (HK$85.4 billion) acquisition of British software firm Autonomy.

Lane, a managing partner at high-powered Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, fellow venture capitalist Marc Andressen and other board members have come under fire from shareholders for one of the company’s costliest acquisition mistakes in years.

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