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Brazil sues BHP, Vale for $5 billion in damages for mine disaster
December 1st, 2015
Brazil filed a lawsuit on Monday against two of the world’s largest mining companies for 20 billion Brazilian reais ($5.2 billion/3.4 billion pounds) to clean up what it says was its worst environmental disaster, caused by the collapse of a ...
HP is now two companies. How did it get here?
November 2nd, 2015
HP’s split follows more than a decade of scandals and missteps If Hollywood wanted a script about the inexorable decline of a corporate icon, it might look to Hewlett-Packard for inspiration. Once one of Silicon Valley’s most respected companies, ...
The B2 Group announces PayEX-HP for payment processing
October 19th, 2015
Next generation of PayEX optimized for high transaction volumes and maximum performance The B2 Group, provider of based payments, investment funds and FX automation software and consultancy solutions for transaction banks, third-party administrators, fund companies and corporates across the ...
HP to pay $100m to settle lawsuit with shareholders
June 10th, 2015
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard has agreed to pay $100m (£65m) to some of its shareholders to settle a claim over its ill-fated acquisition of Autonomy. Dutch pension fund manager PGGM led the class action lawsuit, which claimed HP had misled ...
BHP merger with Clough propels it into Top 50
April 17th, 2015
Barber Harrison & Platt (BHP), Yorkshire’s largest independent firm of chartered accountants, has merged with Cleckheaton-based Clough & Company. The deal creates a regional practice with six offices, over 270 people and revenues approaching £18m, place it firmly within ...
Earthport Appoints New President for Europe
February 12th, 2015
Daniel Marovitz will lead the cross-border payment company’s European business Earthport, the cross-border payments service provider has appointed web entrepreneur and banker Daniel Marovitz as President of Europe, effective immediately. Daniel is responsible for the company’s European commercial operations, ...
BHP to test U.S. oil export ban by selling without formal ruling
November 5th, 2014
BHP Billiton Ltd is set to be the first company to export lightly processed ultra-light U.S. oil without explicit permission from the government, further testing the limits of an increasingly contentious ban on foreign sales. Eight months after two ...
HP subsidiaries plead guilty in bribery cases
September 12th, 2014
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and three subsidiaries pleaded guilty Thursday to paying bribes to foreign officials in Russia, Mexico and Poland and agreed to pay $108 million in criminal and regulatory penalties. The guilty pleas, entered in San Francisco federal court, ...
Wachtell to pursue Deloitte in HP Autonomy row
August 28th, 2014
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz is to pursue Deloitte on behalf of Hewlett-Packard (HP) in an escalation of the company’s row with software firm Autonomy over its doomed 2011 acquisition. Wachtell partner Marc Wolinsky told a San Francisco court ...
Asian Stocks Fall as BHP Billiton Drags Index Lower
August 20th, 2014
Asian stocks fell after valuations reached the highest level this year and as BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) slumped, dragging materials shares to the largest decline on the regional gauge. BHP, the world’s largest miner, tumbled 3.9 percent in Sydney ...
