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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Pellett. The BBC is reporting that Boris Johnson

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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Tellett, and that's a Bloomberg Business Flash. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to Taking the Stoff with Kathleen Hayes and Pim

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Speaker 1: Fox on Bloomberg Radio. Intel It's computer security unit McAfee

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Speaker 1: is drawing interest from private equity firms as the company

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Speaker 1: considers selling the business. This is according to people with

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Speaker 1: the knowledge knowledge of the matter contacted by Bloomberg here

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Speaker 1: to talk about the deal, and his story is Bloomberg's

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Speaker 1: own Kyle Porter. He is from our deal's team here

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Speaker 1: in the U S So, Kyle, why is Intel considering

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Speaker 1: selling its computer security unit at a time when so

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Speaker 1: many people are concerned about computer security? Oh, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: It's a combination of fact. Is really the fact that

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Speaker 1: the acquisition was done five years ago. There was an

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Speaker 1: aim of integrating into the process of constructing the computer

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Speaker 1: Intel wort of Light. At the same time, there's been

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Speaker 1: a real lack of comparative investment in the product, and

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Speaker 1: there's allowed competitors to get ahead. Uh. That has allows

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Speaker 1: them to look forward and say, well, maybe we should

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Speaker 1: be thinking looking about with this business. Maybe there is

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Speaker 1: a better owner and private equity. It's a corporate widowed

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Speaker 1: as said, it's sort of the classic things that they'll

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Speaker 1: account Kyle. The price tag in was seven point seven billion, dollars.

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Speaker 1: Was this a seven point seven billion dollar mistake? That's

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Speaker 1: But if you look at the division in which mccaffee sits,

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Speaker 1: and there are other products in there, they're operating profit

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Speaker 1: last year with two and ten million. If you've take

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Speaker 1: an ebitdar Figer, it's not going to be a million

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Speaker 1: miles away from that, and you're not going to get more.

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Speaker 1: Even at eleven times, you'd be talking possibly three billion

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Speaker 1: it sounds like you just answered Pim's question. If you

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Speaker 1: bought it for almost eight billion, you're only selling for

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Speaker 1: information that we've received, it's been the product the firms

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Speaker 1: that have a lot of technology to experience. Three of

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Speaker 1: the firms that's in the story to Tom A Brow

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Speaker 1: and this only really do technology and software deals. And

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Speaker 1: there are the first firm that we have listed there

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Speaker 1: We understand if her process is initiated and it's you know,

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Speaker 1: you've got to be clear that while we understand the

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Speaker 1: Intel has talked to potential advisors about running something, they

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Speaker 1: responsors to come out of the woodwork. Is McAfee competitive

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Speaker 1: still say quite possibly. So, Uh, what does this mean

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Speaker 1: potential sale of Intel's McAfee unit, said to draw interest

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