McAfee to buy Foundstone for $86 million
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Antivirus software company McAfee Inc. is buying Foundstone Inc., which makes software for detecting and managing software vulnerabilities, for $86 million in cash, McAfee said Monday.
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IBM has agreed to buy Watchfire, a developer of web application security auditing tools, and plans to incorporate it into its Rational business unit.
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Morgan Stanley's  real estate unit agreed to buy Australia's Investa Properties Ltd.  for A$4.7 billion ($3.9 billion) on Thursday, the nation's third-largest property trust takeover.
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CA buys antispyware vendor PestPatrol while McAfee snaps up Foundstone.
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Concrete maker RMC is set to be bought by Mexican rival Cemex in a deal valuing it at around Â£2.3 billion, it was announced today.
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The Blackstone Group had also bid for  U.S. apartment owner Archstone-Smith Trust  in the weeks  before Archstone agreed to acquired by affiliates of Lehman  Brothers Holdings Inc.  and Tishman Speyer for more than  $15 billion, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on  Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - McAfee plans to deliver more scalable versions of its e-mail and Web security appliances designed for enterprise users. The new products will be available by year's end, according to McAfee CTO Christopher Bolin, who discussed them Tuesday at McAfee's analyst conference in New York. "We've recently just OKed a project to build a very high-end enterprise product, a blade server approach to this problem," he said during a webcast of the event. McAfee already sells Web- and e-mail-filtering appliances called Secure Web Gateway and Secure Messaging Gateway, but these new products will be able to serve a much larger number of clients, McAfee said Wednesday, without disclosing specifics. McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt told analysts that the need for an enterprise-class offering was made clear to him in a recent customer meeting with Citigroup. "We didn't have the ability to cross-sell our network appliances very easily, at least not at the enterprise level," he said. The new products will ship into a marketplace that is in the throes of consolidation. DeWalt said that Web filtering vendorÂ Websense's recent purchase of SurfControlÂ also presented an opportunity for his company in the enterprise market. "It's going to take them seven plus months to bring those two companies together. We can completely disrupt that market," he said. The SurfControl acquisition is expected to close four months after final regulatory approval, which is still pending in the U.K. Another competitor in this space will be Cisco, which is on the verge of completing its $830 millionÂ acquisition of IronPort, a seller of Web- and e-mail-security appliances. McAfee is taking the opposite approach to its closest competitor Symantec, which last year shuttered most of its security appliance operation in order to focus on software development. Still, McAfee may find opportunities in this new sliver of the enterprise market, said Andrew Jaquith, an analyst with Yankee Group Research. "It's a good strategy to try and skim off some revenue that's being taken by others in this space," he said. "I don't see how it can hurt them."
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Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Wednesday it agreed to buy BEA Systems Inc. for about $7.85 billion, a compromise price that ends a months-long dispute over the value of the software company.
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IBM , the world's largest  technology services company, said on Wednesday it will buy  privately held security and compliance testing software company  Watchfire Corp. for an undisclosed amount.
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Real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith  on Tuesday said it agreed to be acquired by Tishman Speyer and investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  for $22.2 billion, reflecting a strong, lingering appetite for real estate by private investors.
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Metier Ltd. of the District won a one-year, $2 million contract for software and services for the FBI's Enterprise IT Portfolio Management Program. The new initiative will improve oversight of the FBI's information-technology systems, applications and assets by the agency's IT management and staff, the company said.
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PHILADELPHIA/LOS ANGELES  - A group headed by Sony  Corp. of America on Monday agreed to buy Hollywood film studio  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for about $2.85 billion in cash to mine  MGM's lucrative library for the booming DVD market.
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The McDonaldÂs Corporation said that hedge fund investor William A. Ackman planned to buy more than $793.8 million worth of shares.
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The private equity firm plans to acquire 80% of the common stock in the home appliance and consumer electronics retail chain for &#36;307 million.
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Goes mad for certifying Security firm McAfee has bought ScanAlert - the company behind the "HACKER SAFE" kitemark used to certify ecommerce websites.â¦
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Leveraging its October 2007 purchase of Berkeley Data Systems [BDS], EMC announced this week that it will offer an enterprise backup and recovery solution, MozyEnterprise, over a hosted SaaS platform for desktops, laptops, and remote servers.The service will become part of EMC's Fortress hosted services and will offer RSA-level security, a capability that was not available when the product was owned by BDS and marketed as Mozy Professional. The solution includes integrated key management, authentication and authorization security. Over time, EMC will offer other SaaS solutions, according to officials.The EMC solution will compete directly with Iron Mountain's DataDefense backup and recovery SaaS service. However, EMC lacks a key capability that Iron Mountain offers, according to Adam Couture, a principal analyst with Gartner. "DataDefense encrypts everything on the laptop," said Couture. "MozyEnterprise does not have this capability."An EMC spokesperson confirmed this, saying that data is encrypted once it leaves the laptop or desktop and is stored by EMC.The company will either have to develop the encryption capability on its own or partner with another company in order to be competitive, but the fact that GE used Mozy Professional before the acquisition and is apparently staying with the product from EMC gives EMC enterprise credibility, he added.Pricing for a desktop/laptop is $5.25 per month per desktop/laptop plus $0.70 per gigabyte protected. Windows server pricing is $9.25 per month per supported Windows server plus $2.35 per month per gigabyte protected.
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IBM , the world&#39;s largest  technology services company, said on Wednesday it will buy  privately held security and compliance testing software company  Watchfire Corp. for an undisclosed amount.