Summit Partners has made a $100 million minority investment in Avast Software, a Czech Republic-based developer of anti-virus software. AVAST Software, developers of the world’s most popular antivirus ...

Avast, an anti-virus computer software brand, is the brainchild of Avast Software, which was formerly known as Alwil Software. The company's products compete with some of the industry's most popular ...

Avast -- stylized as "avast!" -- is the anti-virus computer software brand from Czech-based developer Avast Software. The name of the program is actually an acronym for Anti-Virus - Advanced Set. It's ...

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 ...

After promising that its software would shield internet users from third-party tracking, Avast allegedly harvested and sold customers' online browsing data, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

Security software giant Avast Software has acquired rival AVG Technologies. Avast will pay $25 cash for each of AVG’s outstanding ordinary shares in a deal amounting to around $1.3 billion. Founded ...

MADRID/LONDON (Reuters) - The owners of Avast Software have hired Rothschild to prepare the business for a share sale which could value one of the world's most used providers of computer antivirus ...

Avast is the most used antivirus software around the world and for good reason. It boasts high protection scores from the top testing labs and includes a plethora of security tools designed to keep ...

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Smith Micro announces intention to acquire Avast’s Family Safety Mobile Business and establish reciprocal preferred partner status “Acquiring the Family Safety Mobile Business from Avast will present ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avast Software, maker of the world’s most trusted mobile and PC security, today revealed results of a Wi-Fi hack experiment conducted at various locations around ...

Avast said Thursday that it will wind down its data-collection service, Jumpshot, in response to concerns that it was collecting personal information about users from its free antivirus programs ...