{"id":62811,"date":"2014-11-07T06:41:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T06:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=62811"},"modified":"2014-11-07T06:41:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T06:41:58","slug":"avg-approached-possible-buyers-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=62811","title":{"rendered":"AVG approached by possible buyers: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"articleLocatio&lt;\/span&gt;n\">AVG Technologies\u00a0has been approached by potential buyers amid a wave of deals for security-software makers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no formal sale process, but should there be a deal, it would likely come together in the coming months, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Amsterdam-based AVG Technologies provides <span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\">software<\/span> that neutralizes viruses and spams and provides internet security.<\/p>\n<p>Private-equity firms have been increasing their bets on security-focused technology providers, WSJ reported<\/p>\n<p>AVG could not be reached immediately for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AVG Technologies\u00a0has been approached by potential buyers amid a wave of deals for security-software makers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. There is no formal sale process, but should there be a deal, it would likely come together in the coming months, according to the report. Amsterdam-based AVG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":62815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-62811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}