Day archives: December 17th, 2004

From NYT: The Symantec Corporation, a leader in security software and one of Silicon Valley’s oldest companies, announced early Thursday that it would acquire Veritas Software, a maker of data storage programs, to create the world’s fourth-largest software company. The all-stock transaction was valued at $13.5 billion. The deal, which is expected to close in …

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From Tech Republic: Internet users may soon be required to pay an additional annual fee for each domain name they own, thanks to a virtually unnoticed requirement that will begin to take effect next year. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international organization that oversees domain names, is moving forward with …

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