McAfee buying ScanAlert for $51M
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McAfee Inc., a leading maker of computer antivirus software, said Tuesday it is buying ScanAlert Inc. for $51 million, adding to its Internet security offerings a service intended to help consumers feel safer shopping online.
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Dow Jones will buy MarketWatch for about $519 million, a deal that would end a month-long bidding war for the online financial news and information provider.
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Dow Jones has agreed to buy online financial news provider Marketwatch Inc for 519 million dollars, or 18 dollars per share, the two companies said in a joint statement.
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IBM , the world's largest  information-technology company, on Wednesday said it agreed to  buy Internet Security Systems Inc.  for $1.3 billion,  continuing an acquisition drive to fuel growth.
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Symantec, a maker of computer antivirus products, will buy Altiris for about $1.03 billion to gain programs that track corporate software use.
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Security compliance play McAfee has agreed to buy a majority stake in security policy compliance firm Citadel Security in a deal valued at $60m. The deal is designed to bolster McAfee's capabilities in the area of policy enforcement and vulnerability remediation.â¦
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Dow Jones &amp; Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has agreed to buy MarketWatch, the parent company of the financial news Web site CBS MarketWatch, for approximately $519 million, the companies said today.
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Ingram Micro Inc., the world&#39;s largest distributor of computer products, said Monday that is agreed to purchase Australian technology distributor Tech Pacific for about $493 million in cash, including assumed debt.
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NEW YORK - Dow Jones &amp; Company is buying the business news service MarketWatch, owner of the website CBS.MarketWatch.com, in a $519m (Â£280m) deal after a bidding war for the company.
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Symantec Corp., the world&#39;s largest maker of anti-virus programs for computers, agreed to buy Veritas Software Corp. for $13.5 billion, the biggest software purchase in six years.
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NEW YORK-- Business news publisher Dow Jones &amp; Co. said today it is acquiring MarketWatch Inc., an online financial news and information provider, for $519 million in cash, broadening the company&#39;s presence in the growing realm of online advertising.
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Symantec Corp.'s reported interest in acquiring Veritas Software Corp. for more than $13 billion would represent the computer security giant's biggest step yet beyond its core businesses of defending against viruses and thwarting hackers. Investors weren't impressed, though, and Symantec's shares plunged 16 percent.
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Computer security giant Symantec said Thursday it will buy storage program maker Veritas Software for US$13.5 billion in one of the world&#39;s largest software company mergers.
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Just four months after picking up PreventSys, McAfee brings another security-compliance vendor into the fold with acquistion of Citadel Security Software, following the latter company's delisting by NASDAQ.
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Ending days of speculation, security technology company Symantec Corp. said Thursday, Dec. 16, it will buy Veritas Software Corp., a provider of storage technology, for $13.5 billion in stock.
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(InfoWorld) - Check Point Software Technologies is making its second acquisition in as many months, scooping up NFR SecurityÂ for about $20 million. Check Point plans to incorporate NFR's intrusion detection and prevention technologies into its own security portfolio of firewall, VPN (virtual private network) and security management products. The resulting product will offer a high level of intelligence, adaptability and manageability, Check Point said. In addition to that bundled offering, Check Point will also sell a stand-alone intrusion detection and prevention product that will combine NFR's product line with Check Point's InterSpect internal security gateway products. Check Point specializes in pre-emptive security, offering a unified security architecture that provides protection across an entire network. NFR offers intrusion detection and prevention technologies, protecting against malicious code, backdoors, intrusion attacks, and other issues. NFR, of Rockville, Maryland and has 22 employees. U.S. regulatory authorities have already approved the acquisition, which is expected to close before the end of this year. Last month, Check PointÂ announced it would buy Pointsec Mobile TechnologiesÂ for $586 million in order to extend its offering to laptops and other remote access devices. That deal followed a proposed acquisition of Sourcefire earlier this year, whichÂ Check Point had to withdrawÂ after some U.S. government agencies, which are Sourcefire customers, protested in apparent concern about the acquisition's national security implications. Check Point is an Israeli company.
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Dow Jones &amp; Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, says it has agreed to buy online news site MarketWatch Inc. in a $519 million deal that widens its Internet audience.