On April 29, 2010 Symantec Corp. announced that it would acquire PGP for $ 300 million with the intent of integrating it into its Enterprise Security Group.

In May 1990 Symantec announced its intent to merge with and acquire Peter Norton Computing, a developer of various utilities for DOS.

: On December 16, 2004, Veritas and Symantec announced their plans for a merger.

: On January 29, 2007, Symantec announced plans to acquire Altiris and on April 6, 2007 the acquisition was completed.

: On January 17, 2008, Symantec announced that they were spinning off the Application Performance Management business and its i3 product range to Vector Capital.

: On August 18, 2008, Symantec announced the signing of an agreement to acquire PC Tools ( company ) such that PC Tools would maintain separate operations.

: On October 9, 2008, Symantec announced its intent to acquire Gloucester based MessageLabs ( a 2007 spin-off from parent company Star Internet ) to boost its Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) business.

: On April 29, 2010, Symantec announced its intent to acquire PGP and Guardian Edge.

: On May 19, 2011 Symantec announced the acquisition of ClearWell systems for approximatelly $ 390 million.

: On January 17, 2012 Symantec announced the acquisition of cloud email archiving company LiveOffice.

The acquisition agreement between Symantec and Nukona was announced on March 20, 2012.

On December 16, 2004, Veritas and Symantec announced their plans for a merger in a deal valued at $ 13. 5 billion.

Security companies such as Afferent Security Labs, Symantec, Trend Micro, FireEye, Umbra Data and Damballa have announced offerings to counter botnets.

Symantec has announced in official post that Norton AntiVirus and Internet Security, as well as the newest Norton 360 v6 will be compatible with Windows 8.

Symantec announced it had sponsored a bug-a-thon between USC and UCLA during the final development stages of the latest product release of Norton Utilities 3. 0.

Symantec announced a Professional Edition on November 19, 2002.

Symantec has announced in official post that Norton AntiVirus and Internet Security, as well as the newest Norton 360 v6 will be compatible with Windows 8.

In January 2009, L0phtCrack was acquired by the original authors from Symantec ; L0phtCrack 6 was announced at the SOURCE Boston Conference on March 11, 2009.

Symantec announced its acquisition of @ stake on September 16, 2004 and completed the transaction on October 9, 2004.

In 2004, the company announced plans to integrate with Symantec anti-virus technology.

On 2010 April 29, Symantec Corp. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PGP Corporation.

On January 29, 2007, Symantec announced plans to acquire Altiris and on April 6, 2007 the acquisition was completed.

Since its founding in 1972, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has backed entrepreneurs in more than 500 ventures including AOL, Amazon. com, Citrix, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Genomic Health, Google, Intuit, Juniper Networks, Netscape, Sun, Symantec, Verisign, WebMD and Zynga.

In 2010, Verisign sold its authentication business unit – which included SSL ( secure socket layer ), PKI ( public key infrastructure ), Verisign Trust Seal, and Verisign Identity Protection ( VIP ) services – to Symantec for $ 1. 28 billion.

" Prior to selling its certificate business to Symantec in 2010, Verisign had more than 3, 000, 000 certificates in operation for everything from military to financial services and retail applications, making it the largest CA behind the encryption and authentication on the Internet, which most people recognize as the small padlock icon in their Web browser when shopping online or logging into a secure website.

On August 9, 2010, Symantec completed its approximately $ 1. 28 billion acquisition of Verisign's authentication business, including the Secure Sockets Layer ( SSL ) Certificate Services, the Public Key Infrastructure ( PKI ) Services, the Verisign Trust Services, the Verisign Identity Protection ( VIP ) Authentication Service, and the majority stake in Verisign Japan.

Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers, best known for its Norton brand.

The merged company retained the name Symantec, and Eubanks became its chairman, Vern Raburn, the former CEO of the original Symantec, remained as CEO of the combined company.

Soon after the merger, Eubanks and Raburn recruited Rod Turner into Symantec as its executive vice president for marketing, sales, product management and international business.

During 1986, Vern Raburn and Gordon Eubanks swapped roles, and Eubanks became CEO and president of Symantec, while Raburn became its chairman.

During this time, Symantec was advised by Jim Lally and John Doerr — both were board members of Symantec at that stage — ( Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ) that if Symantec would cut its expenses and grow revenues enough to achieve cash flow break-even, then KPCB would back the company in raising more venture capital.

Revenues from Q & A, and from Symantec's early launch into the international marketplace, combined with Turner Hall Publishing, generated the market presence and scale that enabled Symantec to make its first merger / acquisition, in February 1987, that of BreakThrough Software, maker of the TimeLine project management software for DOS.

Soon after the acquisition of TimeLine / Breakthrough Software, Eubanks reorganized Symantec, structuring the company around product-centric groups, each having its own development, quality assurance, technical support and product marketing functions, and a General Manager with profit and loss responsibility.

In July 1989 Symantec had its IPO.

At the time of the merger, Symantec had built upon its Turner Hall Publishing presence in the utility market, by introducing Symantec Antivirus for the Macintosh ( SAM ), and Symantec Utilities for the Macintosh ( SUM ).

At one time Symantec was also known for its development tools, particularly the THINK Pascal, THINK C, Symantec C ++, and Visual Cafe packages that were popular on the Macintosh and IBM PC compatible platforms.

Symantec substantially grew its enterprise business when it acquired VERITAS Software.

As a result of this merger, Symantec includes storage and availability related products in its portfolio namely Veritas File System ( VxFS ), Veritas Volume Manager ( VxVM ), Veritas Volume Replicator ( VVR ) and Veritas Cluster Server ( VCS ), NetBackup ( NBU ), Backup Exec ( BE ), Enterprise Vault ( EV ).

After the Symantec acquisition, a Canadian startup company called MailChannels released their " Traffic Control " software, which uses a slightly different approach to achieve similar results.

These businesses and the Living Videotext acquisition were consistently unprofitable for Symantec, and these losses diverted expenditures away from both the Q & A for Windows and the TimeLine for Windows development efforts during the critical period from 1988 through 1992.

Symantec ’ s acquisition of Clearwell brings together the industry ’ s leading eDiscovery, archiving and backup offerings to provide customers one of the most comprehensive information management solutions available.

: Symantec advised the acquisition will allow it to add to its information governance products, allowing customers to have the choice to store information either on-premise or in Symantec's data centers or a mix of both.

: On March 2, 2012 Symantec completed the acquisition of Odyssey Software ( Mobile Device Management ), whose main product was-Athena, a device management software that extends Microsoft System Center solutions, adding the ability to manage, support, and control mobile and embedded devices, such as smartphones and ruggedized handhelds.

: Symantec completed its acquisition of Nukona, a provider of mobile application management ( MAM ), on April 2, 2012.

* ( Last Internet Archive copy from before Symantec acquisition )

After the Symantec acquisition, a few functions ( such as translation into other languages ) were moved elsewhere, but the main development remained in Auckland until October 2009 at which time much was moved to India.

Technologies developed by 20 / 20 Software were integrated into Ghost after their acquisition by Symantec in April 2000.

* It uses a totally different code base, based on the DriveImage / V2i Protector product via Symantec ′ s acquisition of PowerQuest.

:√ denotes software that continues to be published after the acquisition by Symantec.

Following the acquisition of VeriSign Security by Norton's parent company Symantec, several of VeriSign's features were incorporated into the 2011 edition.

* April 2007 Altiris acquisition by Symantec Corp. ( Nasdaq: SYMC ) completed.