Avast, one of our past favorite desktop antivirus applications, is acquiring one of it’s biggest rivals, AVG Technologies, for $1.3 billion in cash. The deal will give Avast access to hundreds of ...

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 ...

A year after closing its acquisition of AVG to consolidate two anti-virus giants, Avast is now relaunching its business portfolio to integrate the two technology portfolios and rolling out a new ...

The endpoint security space is largely dominated by a handful of major players, and two of the biggest are teaming up in a deal that will send ripple effects across the freeware, desktop and mobile ...

PRAGUE & AMSTERDAM–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Avast Software, the leader in digital security products for consumers and businesses, today announced it has acquired a majority stake in AVG Technologies after ...

PRAGUE & AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avast Software, the leader in digital security products for consumers and businesses, today announced it has acquired a majority stake in AVG Technologies after ...

Two months after antivirus company Avast Software s.r.o. announced that it would be acquiring its rival, AVG Technologies N.V., for $1.3 billion, the deal is done. According to Avast, while the buyout ...

On Friday, Avast Software closed its $1.3 billion acquisition of AVG, a move that married two of the larger endpoint security vendors. With the closing of the deal, CEO Vince Steckler said the company ...

Avast has announced plans to acquire AVG in a $1.3 billion deal which will combine the antivirus products of both companies. On Thursday, the Prague, Czech Republic-based company said an agreement has ...

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 ...

Mozilla has removed four extensions from Avast and AVG from the Firefox addon site over concerns that they were tracking a user's activity as they are browsed the web. When Avast and AVG antivirus is ...

Two browsers have yanked Avast and AVG online security extensions from their web stores after a report revealed that they were unnecessarily sucking up a ton of data about users’ browsing history.