'Toxic relationship' at HP days before buying Autonomy

Court hears of row between top two executives as chief pushed ahead with £8bn dealA row between Hewlett Packard executives broke out just days before it announced its £8bn takeover of British software group Autonomy in 2011, with its finance chief accusing the chief executive of “corrupting the company”, a court heard on Tuesday.Defence lawyer Robert Miles QC presented evidence of an increasingly toxic relationship between the top two executives at HP as its new chief exe