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Top Secret : Symantec in Talks to be Bought (Update)

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., International Business Machines, Symantec Corp., Mergers, Tech, SYMC, CSCO, IBM
12 Jul 12:09am
Acquiring party is said to be Cisco Systems, Inc., or International Business Machines ("IBM") and if anything comes out of these talks, it could be made public as early as September of this year.  I don't know about this one, Symantec may be cheap, but they're a heavy load of debt, and a contigent US$1billion courtcase against the IRS.  On the other hand, they sure do got a dominance in their market in security and data management.Like I said, I just heard this over at Starbucks agai...

Top Secret: Symantec in Talks to be Bought

Tags: Symantec Corp., Norton Antivirus, Veritas Software, SYMC
6 Jul 8:10pm
So here's the story, Symantec Corp. (the maker of Norton Antivirus), is in talks to potentially be a target buy-out by ABC Co.  Reason why I say "ABC Co." is because I do not know which company it is yet, nor do I know the status of any talks.  Perhaps only a rumour?, well, one thing is for sure though, there has been some shake up with their top management, mainly overseas in their European and Asian operations.  Could it be possibly be Microsoft?  It is fact that they are...