News bites: HP says it was duped in software deal

Hewlett-Packard said it was duped into overpaying for a software company, The Wall Street Journal reports.

According to Bloomberg, the Federal Trade Commission might not pursue the most serious antitrust charges against Google.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said the state should have done more to prevent hackers from stealing financial records, The New York Times writes.

David Kappos, the head of the Patent and Trademark Office, told critics of software patents to "give it a rest already," Ars Technica reports.

A federal jury convicted a New York man of hacking into AT&T's servers and stealing the personal information of iPad users, Reuters writes.