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Intel buys McAfee for nearly $8 billion

| Thursday, August 19, 2010
While most of the IT guys I know aren't fans of McAfee -- especially after that teensy little definition screwup which resulted in thousands of unwanted desktop support hours -- Intel is obviously a fan. In a press release this morning, the IT behemoth has announced that they're swallowing up McAfee for the princely sum of $7.7 billion dollars.

Whether guys like you or I like it or not, McAfee still has a lot going for it. It's preinstalled on loads of OEM PCs and gets plenty of subscription buys as a result. It's a force to be reckoned with in the enterprise, and they're one of the most widely-recognized names in antivirus.

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