Antivirus, virtual private networks, protection against identity theft… Between them, they equip more than 500 million users worldwide with security software.
The American NortonLifeLock (ex-Symantec) announced last August the acquisition of the Czech Avast, for an amount between 8.1 and 8.6 billion dollars.
This new consumer cybersecurity giant aims to achieve $3.5 billion in revenue and cost synergies of $280 million per year.
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But after green lights obtained in the United States, Germany and Spain, the two players come across a bone in the United Kingdom. The British regulator (Competition and Markets Authority) is indeed concerned about a possible "
reduction of competition in the UK and a worse situation for consumers looking for cybersecurity software
,” in the words of CMA Chairman David Stewart.
So he asks NortonLifeLock to make him…
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