Two leading certificate authorities this week had changes in ownership of their business. Francisco Partners acquired majority stake in Comodo’s digital certificate business for undisclosed sum. DigiCert announced the completion of its previously announced $950 million purchase of Symantec’s troubled CA operations. Comodo currently holds a 38.7% share of the market for high-assurance SSL certificates. Google and Mozilla have said their browsers will soon stop trusting all Symantsec-issued certificates. But for both the companies themselves, the changes present new opportunities.”]