PRAGUE — Totalitarianism often leads to capitalism. Consider the ominous-sounding Research Institute for Mathematical Machines where, in 1988, researchers Eduard Kucera and Pavel Baudis toiled while ...

Security software giant Avast Software has acquired rival AVG Technologies. Avast will pay $25 cash for each of AVG’s outstanding ordinary shares in a deal amounting to around $1.3 billion. Founded ...

The rise in malware and online security threats continues to give a big boost to companies that are looking for ways to make the connected world a bit safer. Avast, one of the bigger PC and mobile ...

Antivirus vendor Avast Software has agreed to buy rival AVG Technologies for $1.3 billion in cash. The deal will give Avast access to over 400 million “endpoints,” or devices running its and AVG’s ...

Summit Partners has made a $100 million minority investment in Avast Software, a Czech Republic-based developer of anti-virus software. AVAST Software, developers of the world’s most popular antivirus ...

Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here The security software industry is heating up. The latest evidence? Private equity firm Summit Partners has ...

Frankfurt am Main, December 03, 2020 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has today affirmed Avast Holding B.V.'s (Avast) corporate family (CFR) at Ba2, as well as its probability of default ...

Avast said Thursday that it will wind down its data-collection service, Jumpshot, in response to concerns that it was collecting personal information about users from its free antivirus programs ...

MADRID/LONDON (Reuters) - The owners of Avast Software have hired Rothschild to prepare the business for a share sale which could value one of the world's most used providers of computer antivirus ...

Avast Antivirus, which can be used for free, is a standard antivirus software with 400 million users worldwide. It has been found that security company Avast Software, which provides such Avast ...

Evidence came to light from news website VICE this week that Avast, a popular supplier of paid and free antivirus software, has been sharing 'de-identified' personal user information collected from ...