Kara Swisher

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Symantec Buys LiveOffice for $115 Million

Symantec said it had acquired LiveOffice, a privately-held cloud-based archiving company, for about $115 million. The security software company said the “acquisition will extend Symantec’s intelligent information governance offering to the cloud, providing customers choice between on-premise, cloud or hybrid delivery of Symantec solutions.” (Yes, the company actually said that.)


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I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but it is a compliment of sorts … [Piracy is] something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network.

— HBO programming president Michael Lombardo, talking to Entertainment Weekly about the “rampant” piracy of HBO’s “Game of Thrones”