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InternetNews November 17, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Symantec CEO John Thompson to Step Down John W. Thompson, the CEO of antivirus and security software company Symantec, will retire from the post as of the end of the company's fiscal year, the company announced today.
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InternetNews January 3, 2006 Clint Boulton	Symantec Sets Sights on IMlogic Security software maker Symantec is offering to acquire IMlogic, the top provider of enterprise instant messaging software.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Anders Bylund	Is Security the Next Cloud Computing Play? Symantec has a slow quarter, but looks to brighter days ahead.
InternetNews May 20, 2011 Sean Michael Kerner	Symantec Acquires Clearwell for $390 Million Symantec Corp. is bolstering its storage credentials with the acquisition of privately held eDiscovery vendor, Clearwell Systems.
InternetNews March 2, 2011	PDF Malware on the Rise: MessageLabs Latest report from security vendor Symantec's MessageLabs unit highlights surge in malicious software hiding in PDF attachments, while overall email threats are on the rise.
The Motley Fool May 17, 2011 Anders Bylund	Symantec's Growth Vision Is Cloudy If you squint a certain way, Symantec looks like a turnaround story at the moment.
InternetNews December 16, 2004 Clint Boulton	Symantec to Buy Veritas for $13.5B The marriage of Symantec and Veritas would form one of the largest security and back-up software powers in the market. Should it succeed, Symantec shareholders will own 60% and Veritas shareholders approximately 40% of the combined entity.
InternetNews June 26, 2006 Andy Patrizio	MessageLabs Takes Malware Fight To The Clouds New Web Security Services tries to catch malware before it hits your computer.
InternetNews May 20, 2004 Michael Singer	Symantec to Buy Anti-Spam Company The security specialist will spend $370M to add Brightmail to its enterprise, and potentially its client, offerings.
InternetNews April 16, 2007 Michael Hickins	Symantec's Safe SaaS Step Symantec today announced a beta program that will allow small- and medium-sized business customers to subscribe to a data back-up and recovery service for free.
InternetNews April 18, 2006 Clint Boulton	Symantec's $1B Tax Bill Security software giant Symantec said in a Securities and Exchange filing that it owes the government $1 billion in unpaid taxes, mostly relating to an audit of its purchase of Veritas Software.
InternetNews April 21, 2009 Alex Goldman	Symantec Adds Policy Enforcement to Security Symantec is addressing the convergence of security policy and IT usage policy with updates to its Protection Suites and an acquisition.
InternetNews January 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Financial E-mail Spam Skyrockets The bad guys really, really want your money.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2009 Anders Bylund	Symantec Locking Up Profits (and Customers) Lengthy contracts let companies like Symantec and IBM build their business on solid rock.
InternetNews December 12, 2005 Clint Boulton	IDC: Backup, Replication Lifts Storage The storage software market tallied $2.1 billion in the quarter, buoyed by key markets.
BusinessWeek March 21, 2005 Sarah Lacy	Symantec's Thompson: "I Can't Wait To Compete..." As the CEO finalizes his deal for Veritas, war with Microsoft looms.
InternetNews September 12, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Symantec, Juniper in Security Partnership Symantec and Juniper Networks are about to get a lot closer than they've ever been, thanks to a new strategic partnership announced today. They aren't going to merge.
InternetNews July 28, 2005 Paul Shread	McAfee, Symantec Ride Security Wave McAfee reported pro forma earnings of 31 cents a share... Symantec reported earnings of 27 cents a share... The broader market rose on strong earnings reports... etc.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2007 Tom Taulli	Symantec Steps Into On-Demand The security giant announces its first major Internet-based service.
InternetNews December 9, 2009	Symantec Brings Storage, Security to Amazon EC2 Security software vendor now offering endpoint security and storage foundation apps through Amazon's cloud.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 Rich Smith	Symantec Slammed Symantec plus Veritas equals minus $1.5 billion. When Microsoft makes goo-goo eyes at a market, it's the current suitors that get the shivers.
InternetNews January 25, 2010	Symantec Backup Gets Deduplication Features The latest entry in the deduplication market is an old hand at security and system management. What does Symantec bring to the table?
InternetNews January 30, 2007 Clint Boulton	Symantec Facing Overlaps With Altiris And Rivals Symantec's $830 million purchase of IT management software maker Altiris is yet another message to rival Microsoft that it intends to be more than just a top security software maker.
BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 Robert Barker	Not Many Chinks in Symantec's Armor Demand for its Internet firewall and antivirus software programs is so strong that Symantec expects revenues in the fiscal year ending in March to surge 33%, its earnings per share jumping 44%, to $1.54.
InternetNews January 29, 2007 Clint Boulton	Symantec Extends IT Management With Latest Buy Symantec continues evolving its product lines for IT management.
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Clint Boulton	Symantec Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Veritas Security software maker Symantec is reportedly in talks to buy back-up software power Veritas Software in a blockbuster deal that, at $13 billion, would be one of the largest of its kind.
InternetNews January 5, 2005 Clint Boulton	Symantec, Veritas Leaders Tout Merger CEOs discuss the strengths of a company offering security and back-up software to enterprise customers.
InternetNews August 5, 2005 Drew Robb	Symantec-Veritas Deal Proves Timely Panned at first, the merger of security and storage giants turned out to be well-timed. The combined stock is now on the upswing.
InternetNews November 25, 2008 Judy Mottl	Symantec Trims Enterprise Vault Staff Symantec's cost-cutting move reflects grim economic reality as well as maturation in the product line, some say.
InternetNews June 4, 2010	Hybrid Cloud Requires IT Management Symantec executive explains IT needs to keep up with information management and services when offloading to the cloud.
InternetNews December 13, 2005 Clint Boulton	Dell Data Protects With Symantec Touch The company will offer Symantec's backup software with its storage arrays to help customers protect their data.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 Tom Taulli	Symantec Goes to M&A Rehab The security software giant says it will forgo mega-deals. Rather, the focus will be on smaller deals, such as its $970 million purchase of Altiris in April. The new strategy should be good news for shareholders.
InternetNews August 9, 2005 Paul Shread	Symantec Releases First Veritas Products Symantec unveils the first joint products since acquiring Veritas last month. The new offerings focus on e-mail security and archiving and Linux-based storage management.
InternetNews December 17, 2004 Clint Boulton	Symantec, Veritas Marriage Gets Mixed Reviews While vendors slugged it out over new customers over the last couple of months, two giants in their respective markets were hatching a plan to ambush the software market with a blockbuster merger.
InternetNews February 15, 2005 Erin Joyce	Network Security in the Spotlight With key issues like spyware, spam and single sign-on, is it any wonder that the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco this week is setting new records for attendance and vendors alike?
The Motley Fool May 9, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Symantec Boots Up The security software maker reports fiscal fourth-quarter 2006 earnings today after close of market. Investors, take note.
InternetNews June 22, 2009 Alex Goldman	Security Software Revenues Grew 19% in 2008 Security software and appliances remains one of the few areas of IT where spending is staying even strong, even as businesses cut or delay many of their projects in other areas.
The Motley Fool October 29, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Symantec Shoots for Two In advance of earnings, analysts expect sales to grow at computer security expert Symantec, and profits to grow even more.
InternetNews April 5, 2006 Paul Shread	Symantec, FalconStor Think Remotely Symantec unveils remote backup technology, and FalconStor offers continuous data protection for just about everyone.
InternetNews October 5, 2005 Clint Boulton	IDC: IM Use is Booming in Business A research firm says the enterprise instant messaging market will more than double by 2009.
InternetNews June 23, 2009 Alex Goldman	Symantec Adds Monitoring for Antivirus Tools The Symantec Managed Endpoint Protection Services, announced today, are a suite of services that help enterprise IT managers protect thousands of PCs.
The Motley Fool May 4, 2005 Rich Smith	Verily, Veritas Did Well Symantec's merger target spruces up. So let's take a quick look at Veritas' numbers, for the Symantec shareholders' sakes, if for no other reason.
InternetNews March 16, 2005 Clint Boulton	EU Clears Symantec-Veritas Merger The European Union approves Symantec's $13.5 billion bid for Veritas; Symantec announces a threat assessment service.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2004 Tim Beyers	A $13 Billion Christmas Present? The New York Times reports Symantec is seeking to buy storage software maker Veritas. In thinking about how these companies may be reshaped, the alert investor may find more than one unexpected present for his portfolio.
InternetNews November 5, 2007 Larry Barrett	Symantec Snaps Up Vontu Symantec acquires data protection software firm Vontu for $350 million.
InternetNews May 30, 2006 Roy Mark	Symantec Patches Antivirus Vulnerability Symantec said today it has fixed a vulnerability in its antivirus software suite that potentially could open a backdoor to hackers.
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Symantec Sideswipes Second Patent Dispute The Internet security firm settles with Clearswift after fixing its argument with Aladdin, and reports record revenues.
InternetNews April 27, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Symantec, Aladdin Settle Patent Spat The two sides reach a resolution of all pending litigation over the in-transit scanning technology.