we start in the us, where the british tech tycoon mike lynch has been cleared of fraud charges in a san francisco court. once hailed as a uk bill gates, mr lynch was facing fraud charges over the $11 billion sale of his software firm, autonomy, to hewlett packard back in 2011. mr lynch had been accused of inflating the value of his firm ahead of the sale a jury has found him not guilty on all counts. our north america business correspondent erin delmore has the details. when autonomy was sold to hewlett packard 13 years ago for $11.1 billion, it was one of the top 100 public companies in the uk. the sale marked the la rgest ever takeover of a british technology business. but hewlett packard later wrote down the company s value by more than $8 billion, leading to criminal charges that mike lynch had defrauded hewlett packard by inflating the value of autonomy. the businessman was extradited from britain to the united states to stand trial on the charges, which could have put
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