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Broadcom Buys Symantec's Enterprise Security Business For $10.7 Billion

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Broadcom , which has significant operations in Orange County, has acquired the Enterprise Security business of Symantec , in a deal worth $10.7 The move is consistent with Broadcom's recent activity to diversify itself away from just semiconductors to include network equipment, software, and other products. billion in cash.

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How Sekur.me Wants To Use Cell Phones To Fix Abandoned Shopping Carts

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Jack Bicer: I''ve been in the software development business for over 30 years. My two previous inventions, uninstall and automatic software updates, run on every computer and smartphone today. I''ve been involved in custom software and payment processing for a long time. Talk about your background? What''s next for your startup?

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices.

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Is the Future of Cybersecurity in M&A?

Xconomy

Last month Symantec announced its plans to buy Blue Coat for $4.7 The bigger public players – Cisco, Check Point, HP, IBM, Symantec, and others – need to continually add to their arsenal of security solutions as the threat landscape continues to evolve. Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. Why is this happening?

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Security And Privacy Are Both A Risk and Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

There are others, like LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices.

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New Cybersecurity Alliance Continues Trend of Industry Collaboration

Xconomy

IBM bought Resilient Systems , Cisco Systems snapped up CloudLock , Symantec acquired Blue Coat , and Carbon Black purchased Confer , to name a few. Such credentials enable access to an organization’s software systems for tasks like implementing updates or managing devices on the network.

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Endpoint Security Company CrowdStrike Files Publicly for IPO

Xconomy

CrowdStrike , the cybersecurity company that identified the two Russian government-linked hacker groups that invaded the Democratic National Committee (DNC)’s network during the 2016 presidential campaign, filed publicly for an initial public offering on Tuesday.

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