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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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Inseego Names New Sales VP

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Harris was most recently Sales Vice President for QuestSoftware, and also had served at such companies as ICSynergy, Verisign-Symantec, Arsenal-IBM and Nortel Networks. Inseego said Harris has more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise sales area.

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Rubicon Project Snags OpenX Exec As Product Management VP

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He also had been at Google, Trend Micro, Symantec, among other companies, including co-founding Silvan Networks, a Sequoia-funded Internet startup from the late 90s. Nguyen was most recently GM/Sr. Director of Product Management for Video, OTT, and Mobile at OpenX. READ MORE>>.

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Is the Future of Cybersecurity in M&A?

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

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The uninstall was an interesting story--I was working on Norton Desktop at Symantec, and I was in charge of the installation process. I have yet to receive a thank you from Symantec or Microsoft for uninstall, which is now in the public domain. I''ve been involved in custom software and payment processing for a long time.

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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.