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Online Marketplaces Under Fire from Big Box Retailers
If you sell any of your products online, you may be the target of a new legislation being pushed by big retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Safeway, Best Buy and Walgreens they say is aimed at stemming the flow of stolen goods sold online. In response to the proposed legislation online marketplaces are claiming those…
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More IT Services Contracts to Come under Review
Now that Hewlett-Packard is moving to cut over 24,000 jobs in the wake of its merger with Electronic Data Systems, there is a lot of speculation about what all this ultimately means for the IT services industry. The more negative-minded folks typically see this as a move to reduce HP’s cost structure around EDS by…
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McAfee Claims No. 1 Pure-Play Security Spot with Secure Computing Acquisition
With the acquisition of Secure Computing, McAfee is solidifying its spot as the world’s largest pure-play security technology vendor, positioning itself better against key competitors and opening a mother lode of new technologies to its channel resellers. McAfee will pay $465 million for Secure Computing, one of the oldest security companies in the marketplace. With…
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McAfee to Pay $465 Million for Secure Computing
BOSTON (Reuters) – McAfee Inc (MFE.N), the world’s No. 2 security software maker, said on Monday it plans to buy Internet security company Secure Computing Corp (SCUR.O) for $465 million in cash. The move gives McAfee a suite of software, services and hardware products to protect hackers from getting past the perimeters of computer networks.…