Autonomy Confirms 3-For-1 Stock Split Effective August 1, 2000; All Proposals Approved At Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.Business Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2000 Autonomy Corporation Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU.) is an enterprise software company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom and San Francisco, USA. It develops a variety of enterprise search and knowledge management applications using adaptive pattern recognition techniques centered on Bayesian plc (Nasdaq:AUTN AUTN Autonomy (stock symbol) AUTN Authentication Token (3GPP) AUTN Authentication Token for Network ) (EASDAQ See European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. :AUTN), a leading provider of Internet infrastructure technology, confirmed today that its shareholders had approved a 3-for-1 stock split to be effective August 1, 2000. The stock split was approved at Autonomy's Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. All other matters presented at the AGM AGM annual general meeting AGM n abbr (= annual general meeting) → AG f AGM n abbr (= annual general meeting) → JHV f were also approved, including the approval of Autonomy's annual report and accounts, re-appointment of certain members of Autonomy's Board of Directors and the re-appointment of Arthur Andersen as Autonomy's independent auditors. As a result of the stock split, each of Autonomy's ordinary shares, nominal value Nominal Value The stated value of an issued security that remains fixed, as opposed to its market value, which fluctuates. Notes: When referring to fixed-income securities, the nominal value is also the face value. 1p per share, and ordinary shares represented by ADSs, will represent three new ordinary shares, nominal value 1/3p per share, effective prior to the opening of markets on August 1, 2000. After the split, Autonomy will have approximately 125,300,000 ordinary shares outstanding. About Autonomy Corporation plc Autonomy's technology powers large-scale, personalised systems for the Enterprise, Internet and other Digital domains. Because of its ability to analyse any piece of text (independent of the document's language) and identify and rank the main ideas, Autonomy can automate a broad range of otherwise labour intensive tasks. These range from categorising information by subject matter, to inserting hypertext links to related material, to profiling users based on the ideas in the text they read or write, to delivering information to those most likely to be interested. Autonomy was founded in 1996 and has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and Washington, D.C. in the United States, as well as offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Cambridge, England, Frankfurt, Milan, Paris, Oslo and Sydney. |
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