Activision Blizzard Logo — Activision Blizzard Inc. , formerly Activision, Inc. ( NASDAQ : ATVI ) is a U.S. video game that has Activision and Blizzard Entertainment , which, in turn, belongs to the conglomerate Vivendi SA . The company is the result of the merger between Activision and Vivendi Games , an agreement that was made ​​public on December 2, 2007, for a total amount of 18,800 million dollars.

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The buying process ended on July 9, 2008. The new company believed that the merger of the two would result in “the largest and most profitable video game retailer in the world”. Activision Blizzard “has been leading market positions in all categories” of the video game industry . More

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CA Technologies Logo — CA Technologies ( NASDAQ : CA ), formerly CA, Inc. and Computer Associates, Inc. , is one of the largest companies in the creation of software in the world, and member of the Fortune 500 . Headquartered in Iceland , New York , the company supports the software that runs on mainframe, distributed, virtual and cloud environments and most of Forbes Global 2000 installed. In 2010, CA Technologies has announced its strategy for managing cloud computing at its user conference CA World, and its new product suite CA Cloud-Connected Management Suite that address the new challenges presented by the cloud.

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Although the company sells antivirus and security software for end users, is known for its applications and business solutions for mainframe and distributed computing, mostly installed by companies in the Forbes Global 2000 . More

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Mondeca Logo — Mondeca is a French software publisher based in Paris, specializing in the management of ontologies and the semantic web. The company name comes from a place called Mont des Cats, instead of an abbey Cistercian located in French Flanders, also known for its cheese production. The name refers to the world of Marguerite Yourcenar, and a region with a long tradition of publishing, academic and intellectual freedom.

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Mondeca was created in 2000 by private funds, under the initiative of its founder Jean Delahousse. The heart of the technology was designed in collaboration with a team of graph theory of the EHESS. In the months that followed its foundation, Mondeca became involved in the standardization process of topic maps, both in the working groups of ISO and OASIS, and in the years that followed, in standards of practice of deploying Semantic Web from W3C. More

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AVG is an antivirus software developed by the company Czech AVG Technologies , available for operating systems Windows and Linux , among others.The trade name for security software AVG Technologies is AVG, which comes from its first product, Anti-Virus Guard. an AVG Technologies is a private company formed in Czech in January of 1991 by Gritzbach and Tomas Hofer . In early September of 2005 , the company was bought by Intel Corporation . On April 19th of 2006 , the network ewido became part of the group of AVG Technologies .On November 6th of 2006 , Microsoft announced that AVG products would be available directly from the Security Center Windows Vista .

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From June 7 of 2006 , the AVG software has also been used as an optional component of GFI’s Email Security has produced by GFI Software. On December 5, 2007, AVG announced the acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs, developer of LinkScanner Safe Browsing makes the technology. On February 8, 2008, Grisoft announced that they would change the name of the company Grisoft to AVG Technologies. This change was made ​​to increase the effectiveness of their marketing activities. More

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Avira Logo — Avira is a leading computer security German . Its antivirus applications are based on the AntiVir engine, launched in 1988 , commonly called Luke Filewalker. It was founded under the name of “H + BEDV Datentechnik GmbH”. One of its antivirus, AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic, cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) and is free for personal use. Avira’s engine has been licensed to Ashampoo antivirus and Webroot WebWasher.

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Avira AntiVir Personal — Free Antivirus is Freeware . It is only for personal use. Like most antivirus software, it scans hard disks and removable for virusesand also runs as a background process, checking each opened and closed file. It can discover and possibly remove rootkits . This also makes an update to Internet (daily) in which a window opens with a notice that advises the user to purchase Avira AntiVir Premium. Avira caught up all products to version 10.0 in March of 2010 . Version 10.0 (free) has a faster scan engine and a refined user interface. More

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McAfee Logo — McAfee, Inc. ( NYSE : MFE ) is a software related to computer security headquartered in Santa Clara , California . Its best known product is the antivirus McAfee VirusScan . The company was founded in 1987 under the name of McAfee Associates, named after its founder John McAfee. In 1997, following the merger of McAfee Associates and Network General , the name was replaced by Network Associates. In 2004 the company underwent a profound restructuring. During the spring of that year, the subsidiary was sold to Magic Remedy Solutions, a subsidiary ofBMC Software . During the summer, the Sniffer Technologies subsidiary followed suit, being acquired by the company called Network General (same owner’s name original). Also, the company again changed the name to McAfee to reflect its policy focused on security-related technologies.

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Among the companies that have purchased or sold is McAfee Trusted Information Systems , which took over the development of the Firewall Toolkit, which were the foundation of free software for commercial software Gauntlet Firewall, later sold to Secure Computing Corporation. As a result of control over TIS Labs / NAI Labs / Network Associates Laboratories / McAfee Research, Network Associates’ influence in the software world of open source was quite high, often resulting in parts of several operating systems like Linux , FreeBSD or Darwin , and several contributions to the name server BIND protocol and SNMP in version 3. More

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