PC users who don’t want to pay for a security solution have become used to stitching together various parts: antivirus here, antispyware there, and so on. Avast 2016 combines many of those into a ...

Security giant Avast has announced it intends to acquire fellow Czech-based antivirus software maker AVG for a purchase price of $25.00 per share in cash — resulting in a transaction that will total ...

Avast Software says it is acquiring its anti-virus rival AVG Technologies N.V. in a $1.3 billion deal. Prague-based Avast says it is ready to pay $25 per share in cash for Amsterdam-based AVG, 33 ...

AVG Technologies N.V. (NYSE: AVG) shares soared early on Thursday following news of an acquisition. The company entered into a purchase agreement with Avast Software under which all of its outstanding ...

Avast Software s.r.o., the company behind a popular free antivirus sweet, has just purchased its rival AVG Technologies N.V. for $1.3 billion, proving that the consumer cyber security market is still ...

Avast is a company best known for its security software, but the days where everyone’s first download to their Windows PC is an anti-virus program are fading into the past. The 25-year old software ...

Avast Software agreed to buy AVG Technologies NV for $1.3 billion in cash to add software to protect mobile phones from malware as it aims to tap into the growing number of physical devices connected ...

Avast Software is so named because, of course, the word means “stop hauling!” (so, stop malware) in the Olde English sailor parlance. Today the Czech Republic headquartered antivirus firm is a 600 ...

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Avast Software has entered into an agreement with the Czech based antivirus company AVG Technologies to acquire it for approximately $1.3 billion in an all-stock deal. The acquisition will be ...