Tag: symantec
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Symantec need to stop hiding their Green light under a bushel
I attended Symantec’s Vision 2010 event in Barcelona yesterday and I found it to be hugely frustrating! Symantec are one of the world’s largest computer security companies with 31,000 customers, 18,400 employees (PDF), and revenue in 2009 of $6.2 billion. At yesterday’s Vision event however, they missed lots of great opportunities to talk up their…
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Symantec’s Sustainability Story: It’s The Power Consumption, Stupid.
I was lucky enough recently to meet Jose Iglesias, the guy spearheading Symantec’s sustainability efforts. I wrote the interview up over on Monkchips, but much of the content belongs here too. I like Symantec’s clear focus on energy. While others are broadening their sustainability story, Symantec is doubling down on managing energy more effectively, with…
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Symantec CEO profits while company burns!
Good buddy Dennis Howlett has uncovered, through some clever financial detective work (Dennis is a former accountant), some very dodgy dealings. It seems that the CEO of Symantec, John Thompson, made $1.5m profit on the sale of Symantec shares very shortly before the announcement to the market of losses by Symantec (and the inevitable share…