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Intel sells McAfee (wsj.com)
21 points by nickhould 3569 days ago
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Smart move by Intel. They should never have bought it in the first place. One of my favorite quips about it was by a stock analyst who said, five years ago:

   Intel might as well have bought Whole Foods
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-dealtalk-intel-idUSTRE73K7...
Valuable things (hardware) are sold to China, junk is sold to private equity.