Posts tagged: McAfee Corporation

McAfee Corporation close to being sold to Advent International for $10 billion, reveals, er, Bloomberg

Friday, 5 November 2021, 9:01 pm

It seems Bloomberg is also claiming the "scoop" about McAfee "go private" story.

The thing is in journalism you can only really claim the "scoop" or "exclusive" if you publish first otherwise you are just following up somebody else's story i.e. coming in second, third, fourth etc.

Anyway, I will leave the two big beasts of the US financial media to squable over who got the "scoop" here.....

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McAfee Corporation close to being sold to Advent International for $10 billion, reveals the WSJ

Friday, 5 November 2021, 8:28 pm

The venerable Wall Street Journal has dug out a Friday afternoon corker of a deal scoop.

Hacks at the WSJ just revealed McAfee, the US-listed computer and security software company, is on the verge of being sold to Advent International, which is well known on UK shores for gobbling up defence companies such as Cobham and Ultra Electronics. Below is a link to the WSJ tale:..

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