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Irish Entrepreneur to Make Over $900M in Software Deal with HP

by Shaun Kennedy — Mike Lynch, the co-founder and CEO of Autonomy Corporation, is set to pocket over $900 million following the sale of his software company to US giants Hewlett-Packard.

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