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Said the CEO of Webroot, Mike Potts:
I have exciting news to share with our Community. Webroot has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Carbonite, a leader in cloud-based data protection for businesses. We expect the deal to close within the first calendar quarter of 2019.
https://community.webroot.com/news-announcements-3/carbonite-to-acquire-webroot-337178
Webroot is best known as a provider of antivirus software popular with businesses that relies heavily on cloud processing. Carbonite is best known for its cloud backup services.
See, also, the announcement from Carbonite, the Webroot blog, as well as the Webroot press release.
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Goto, n.:
A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers
to complain about unstructured programmers.
-- Ray Simard
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday February 09 2019, @09:50AM (2 children)
Bosch, very famous Company from Germany. They do Computer for all the German cars. The Exhaust Computer and so much more. They're doing Cloud. They're doing Fog. And, I assume, they're doing Smog. Smart!! youtu.be/KeXPnlrqu5k [youtu.be]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @03:05PM (1 child)
your drunk troll.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday February 09 2019, @03:39PM
WRONG! I've never had a drink. And I never will. Because my brother died horribly from that (RIP!!). Look at video. Volkmar Denner, the CEO of Bosch. This is the Company that did the famous digital for V.W. For Volkswagen (and others). That let them pass the very strict smog regulations. Very smart guy!!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bradley13 on Saturday February 09 2019, @09:51AM (2 children)
In the good old days (which probably never existed), companies were run to make money by selling services and products.
Today, too many companies are run to make themselves into attractive takeover targets. Or, from the other side, companies eliminate potential competition by buying it and shutting it down. In either case, there is no interest in or concern for either customers or employees. It's all about MBAs with spreadsheets looking for big payouts for themselves.
I would like to see some serious restrictions on M&A.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday February 09 2019, @10:19AM
You want the regulations. And possibly in your country, you need them. U.S.A., we have far too many. Sherman Antitrust Act, Clayton Antitrust Act, Federal Trade Commission Act and on and on. We're going to be cutting those tremendously. Like we did with our Huge & Complicated Tax Laws! twitter.com/businessinsider/status/941399496516280320 [twitter.com]
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Sunday February 10 2019, @03:11AM
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Revek on Saturday February 09 2019, @04:55PM
Now they can both suck twice as much. Webroot has to be one of my all time hated products. I really shouldn't hate them though. They have made me lots of money cleaning up machines after they fail to keep them protected. Cabonite backup sucks when you have a large amount of data to start with and you want it to sync. Sometimes It takes months to sync a large amount of data and their support is mostly clueless. Had a local lawyers office that finally settled for a site to site back instead of carbonite. I just installed to nas at each location and created a tunnel between them. Same connection that carbonite couldn't sync in months took two days.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday February 10 2019, @09:07AM
Carbonite is for preserving Harrison Ford.
I guess one can try to protect a business in the same way, but certainly not in the cloud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford