UK tech tycoon fights US extradition over ill-fated HP deal

LONDON (AP) — A British tech entrepreneur has appeared in a London court to fight extradition to the United States on fraud charges stemming from his firm’s takeover by Hewlett-Packard a decade ago. U.S. prosecutors say Michael Lynch inflated the value of his software company, Autonomy, before it was bought by Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion in 2011. Mark Summers, a lawyer representing the U.S. government, told a court hearing on Tuesday that it was a simple case of a British firm &l