Avast and AVG are looking to become one of Europes most famous anti-virus companies. Avast CEO Vince Steckler: I do think this combination is great for our users. We will have over 250 million PC/Mac users enabling us to gather even more threat data to improve the protection to our users’ users. In mobile, our combined 160 million mobile users will be used to improve protection as well as to provide an important stepping stone into the Internet of things.”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/big-news-anti-virus-industry-avast-acquire-avg-1-3-billion/