HP says reaches civil settlement with Calif. AG
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  said  on Thursday it would pay California $14.5 million to settle a  civil case related to board-leak investigations that led to the  resignation of Chairman Patricia Dunn.
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(InfoWorld) - AzulÂ and SunÂ have settled aÂ patent infringement suit Sun filed, the companies said Tuesday. The suit had been pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California since May 2006, said Scott Sellers, COO and co-founder of Azul. Sun alleged that Azul violated trade secrets and patent laws. Azul, founded in 2002, makes high-capacity computing appliances. The company had hired some former Sun employees, including Stephen DeWitt, its CEO. "We're very pleased to disclose this [settlement]. This has been in the works for some time. Both sides realize they're spending a lot of money, and this would have taken another year," said Sellers. U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer, presiding over the case, had made some pretrial rulings on motions that were adverse to Sun, which prompted the company to agree to settlement talks, Sellers said. Sun tells a different story. In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Sun spokeswoman Kristi Rawlinson said Azul agreed to settle because Sun was building a stronger case against Azul as the lawsuit went on. "The patent infringement and trade secret claims against Azul grew larger during the pendency of the case," Rawlinson stated. "Azul came to the realization it would be better to return to negotiations and settle the claims rather than continue with the lawsuit they initiated." The case relates to technology for improving the performance of microprocessors through the use of chip multithreading, which Azul is now using in its products. Sun claims Azul infringed patents related to Sun's prior research in the field, and that it abused trade secrets by poaching about a dozen Sun employees familiar with the technology. In a blog posting, Michael Dillon, Sun's chief legal counsel, declined to discuss terms of the settlement, as did Azul's Sellers.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has agreed to a $14.5 million settlement in the California civil lawsuit related to the company's spying scandal.
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IN a bid to put an embarrassing leaks probe behind it, Hewlett- Packard has agreed to pay California $14.5 million (Pounds 7.4 million) to settle a civil case brought by Attorney General Bill Lockyer.
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Hewlett-Packard has settled a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation regardingÂ the resignation of Tom Perkins from its board.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.   agreed on Tuesday to buy Mercury Interactive Corp.   for about $4.5 billion in stock, or $52 per share, in a bid to  expand the computer maker's business software operations.
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By Jordan Robertson Associated Press  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to pay US$92 million to settle a software patent lawsuit brought against it by Eastman Kodak Co., Sun announced Thursday. The settlement comes just six days after a New York jury found Sun guilty of violating Kodak's patents, but before any damages had been awarded. Kodak had been seeking $1.06 billion in lump sum royalties in the case.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.Nhas been   contacted by the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of   California regarding the company's probe into media leaks, the   company said in a regulatory filing made on Monday.
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Eastman Kodak Co., poised to ask for more than $1 billion in damages from Sun Microsystems Inc., has reached an out-of-court settlement in a long-running patent dispute over the Silicon Valley company&#39;s Java programming language.
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(InfoWorld) - Despite aÂ boardroom scandalÂ that seems to deepen every day, Hewlett-Packard has won new contracts this week, including one that could be worth $5 billion over the next 10 years. The U.S. Army awarded HP a contract that allows several U.S. agencies to order products including desktop PCs, laptops, printers, scanners and displays from HP. The deal does not include specific volumes of products but HP estimates that it will be worth $5 billion. The contract could last as long as 10 years if the groups agree on optional extensions. HP expects to begin taking orders Oct. 1. HP has also signed a seven-year extension on an outsourcing deal with DirecTV. HP will continue providing IT operations and applications testing services that help DirecTV introduce new services, acquire customers and ensure bills are sent accurately and quickly. HP will also offer local area network management, data center operations, database support and disaster recovery for DirecTV. The contract extension is valued at about $500 million. The deals come at a troubled time for HP. The company's chairman said this month that she willÂ step downÂ for her part in an investigation of internal company leaks that involvedÂ obtaining private phone recordsÂ of HP employees and journalists. Details of the extent of the investigation, and the extent to which HP's top executives were involved in it,Â continue to surface. Â
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Eastman Kodak Co., poised to ask for more than &#36;1 billion in damages from Sun Microsystems Inc., has reached an out-of-court settlement in a long-running patent dispute over the Silicon Valley company's Java programming language.
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The company says it is discussing a settlement with the Justice Department.
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By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  SJ-0524-Hewlett-Packard-probe-by-SEC-is-settled   Hewlett-Packard probe by SEC is settled   Therese Poletti  San  Jose Mercury News, Calif.
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- Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N on Tuesday said it   received a 10-year contract from the U.S. Army to provide   personal computers and other computer peripherals.
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Global grocery retailer Ahold NV has agreed to a settlement of civil fraud charges over an alleged $1 billion overstatement of earnings in a deal with U.S. regulators that does not fine the company.
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Oakland, CA (Sports Network) - On the day that Jose Guillen and the Anaheim Angels were to appear in front of an arbitrator, the two sides reached an undisclosed financial settlement Friday.