Hawaii — Silicon Valley's Hamptons, minus the potato fields
Architectural Digest profiled the Hawaiian home of a Silicon Valley mogul in its November issue. A reader fingers Rick Fluegel, a former general partner with Matrix Partners.
News.com reporters Dawn Kawamoto, Stephen Shankland and Tom Krazit, whose phone records were scrutinized by private investigators from Hewlett-Packard, today filed suit against HP, former HP Board of Directors chair Patricia Dunn, and former HP lawyer Kevin Hunsaker. [News.com]
HP scandal postscript: Moaning for the lash
James B. Stewart's long New Yorker article on the Hewlettt-Packard board-surveillance scandal is, of course, not online. However, you deserve least one juicy nugget: the contretemps between spymistress HP chairman Patricia Dunn and powerful board member Tom Perkins regarding Perkins's "novel" Sex and the Single…
SV Confidential: HP ex-chair spills long story to the Wall Street Journal
Hewlett-Packard's former chairwoman, now indicted by California's Attorney General for starting an allegedly illegal investigation into boardroom leaks, tells her story in a 1500-word piece in today's Wall Street Journal.
Look who's squirming now — ex-HP CEO talks to 60 Minutes
HP's former CEO and chairwoman told 60 Minutes last night, "When I get very angry, I get very quiet." And then she writes a book. Carly Fiorina is riding the HP scandal high, knowing she's a golden source, and each interview is secretly a pitch for her new memoir. Fiorina's story: When revealing news articles made it…
SV Confidential: Dunn's sneaky strategy: play dumb, then point fingers
How much does Patricia Dunn really know about illegal investigations? The former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman frustrated the panel at her Congressional hearing by claiming utter ignorance about the law and the nature of her company's investigation into a boardroom leak. At one point, she said that during the ill-fated…
Outlook: HP's ex-chair won't go to trial
Despite the announcement that Patricia Dunn will surrender to authorities now that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer indicted her with the felony of fraudulently obtaining phone records, she may never see trial. The former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard is starting chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, after…
California to indict HP ex-chair and investigators
California's attorney general plans to indict former Hewlett-Packard chair Patricia Dunn for her role in investigating a boardroom news leak, according to the New York Times. Other indictees will include a former HP senior lawyer and three outside investigators.
SV Confidential: Day 1 wrap-up for the HP Congressional hearings
Hero of the day's Hewlett-Packard Congressional hearings: Representative Greg Walden, who tried hard to wave a smoking gun in HP Chairwoman Pat Dunn's face. Dunn spent the whole day expressing surprise at every piece of information — leading one Congressman to remind himself out loud, "You were the chair of HP."
SV Confidential: How clueless is ex-chairwoman Dunn?
During today's Congressional hearings on Hewlett-Packard's possibly illegal pretexting investigation, a panelist cites an e-mail from investigator Vince Nye to HP. According to the New York Times, Nye's e-mail said that the pretexting his investigation used was "very unethical at the least, and quite likely illegal"…
SV Confidential: Who's pleading the fifth
On the day of the Congressional hearing for Hewlett-Packard, the first federal investigation into corporate espionage practices that could be industry-wide, we're following who says what, but more importantly, who refuses to speak at all. Here's who took the Fifth so far:
SV Confidential, Volume 1: Dunn's a patsy!
Welcome to SV Confidential, the Valleywag court watch that starts with Day 1 of the Congressional hearings for Hewlett-Packard. Today, Congress starts figuring out who to blame for an espionage case that may be just one of scads of corporate investigation scandals.
HP's lawyer resigns, and other spying scandal news
Indignant board member's lawyer writes WSJ editorial
When Hewlett-Packard admitted that the company tried to spy on and misinform journalists at CNET, the New York Times, and other papers, the media was, well, not amused. The upshot is that we all get to see the opposition writing guest editorials in major papers. The lawyer for ex-HP board member Tom Perkins (who…
Mark Hurd too busy running company to run company
Friends of Mark Hurd pulled off a beautiful spin job explaining to the New York Times why the Hewlett-Packard CEO didn't stop chairwoman Patricia Dunn and a whole team of investigators from digging up reporters' phone records and planning to plant spies at media outlets.
Next steps for Hewlett-Packard
HP's chairwoman resigned from the board — at least she'll always be a Hall-of-Famer — and CEO Mark Hurd will immediately replace her. Here's what comes next:
HP chair Dunn is gone. Out. Resignation effective immediately.
Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, now under suspicion for cooperating with chairwoman Patricia Dunn's investigations of board members and reporters, is now the chairman of HP, he announced today. Dunn has resigned from the board — a move that was inevitable eventually, but few thought would happen while the scandal was…
