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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost three months after announcing its plans to acquire software security rival AVG for $1.3 billion, Avast has finally revealed that the deal is complete and the duo will operate as a single entity ...

Security firm Avast has today confirmed the completion of a $1.4 billion acquisition of fellow Czech-based antivirus company AVG. The deal will see Avast’s customer base nearly double — swelling from ...

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.