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Intel Grabbing McAfee for $7.7 Billion

By Sam Biddle Published August 19, 2010, 8:45 am ET

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Intel is set to acquire venerable security firm McAfee for a whopping $7.7 billion. Intel claims the deal will lead to safer computing through security measures that integrate their hardware, rather than a strictly-software approach. [Business Insider]

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