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  • Symantec CEO: we are not an anti-virus company

    Symantec's CEO claims the company stopped being an anti-virus firm six years ago and explains why Microsoft does not cost him any sleep.

  • Mergers and acquisitions: do they really matter?

    Do software customers actually care about the impact of provider's mergers and acquisitions, or are they just too far from the crux of business.

  • Symantec: No end in sight for acquisitions

    Symantec is intent on making more strategic acquisitions this year and will follow its Veritas Software buy with a large deal approximately every 18 months, a top company executive said.

  • Symantec CEO to retire

    Symantec chief executive John Thompson will retire in the spring, the security specialist said late Monday in the US.

  • BEA rejects US$6.66bn bid from Oracle

    Oracle has offered to purchase rival BEA Systems for US$17 per share, a total of about US$6.66 billion in cash -- but BEA rejected the offer as too low.

  • McAfee buys data leakage firm

    McAfee plans to acquire Reconnex, a company that specialises in data leakage prevention, which is the second company it has acquired in as many years.

  • Suncorp signs Symantec to protect 20,000 XP PCs

    Suncorp has signed a three-year security and archiving contract with Symantec to protect 20,000 "locked down" Windows XP desktops and servers.

  • Small vendors doomed as giants swallow security?

    IBM has been slow to integrate its acquisition of security vendor ISS, but its decision to do so spells certain doom for smaller security vendors pitching for big business, according to analysts.

  • VeriSign buys iDefense for $40 million

    VeriSign said on Wednesday that it has acquired security intelligence specialist iDefense for about US$40 million in cash, a move intended to boost its security services offerings.

  • Symantec completes Altiris buy

    Symantec on Monday in the US said that it has completed the takeover of IT management software company Altiris. The acquisition was announced on January 29 and valued at the time at $830 million.

  • Data leakage prevention still 'too immature'

    With major changes to the Privacy Act set to occur next year, many organisations are exploring data leakage prevention (DLP) technologies.

  • Symantec toughens anti-piracy effort

    Symantec is beefing up its anti-piracy efforts following the acquisition of Brisbane-based software licensing company XtreamLok.

  • Decru on Symantec's wish list?

    When security giant Symantec bought storage specialist Veritas two years ago, the US$13.5 billion deal was a massive beacon pointing to technological convergence.

  • Check Point to buy Zone Labs for US$205 million

    Check Point Software Technologies plans to buy Zone Labs, which makes security software for desktops, for $205 million, an effort to broaden its product line.

  • With GreenBorder, Google gets deeper into Net security

    Google's purchase of GreenBorder Technologies -- a browser virtualisation software company -- follows on the heels of the search giant announcing a blog from its antimalware team.

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