Macrovision said Thursday it will acquire InstallShield, which makes software installation tools, for $76 million in cash. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Macrovision, a maker of copy-protection technology, ...

Software license management and CD copy prevention company Macrovision Corp. plans to buy InstallShield Software Corp., a developer of software installation tools, it announced Wednesday. Macrovision, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Macrovision said late Wednesday it's agreed to buy privately held InstallShield Software for $76 million in cash in a move to expand its software value management product ...

Under a legal threat from another software firm with a similar name, Acresso Software Inc. is changing its name to Flexera Software after just 19 months. The company will officially announce the ...

The local company best known for installing software on hundreds of millions of computers has agreed to be bought by a California company for as much as $96 million. Schaumburg’s InstallShield ...

Yahoo has inked a deal to expand distribution of its Web search services on personal computers via a pact with software packaging firm Acresso Software, the companies said on Thursday. Acresso, which ...

Macrovision today released a patch for a very severe vulnerability in the FLEXnet Connect (InstallShield) patch-delivery offering but there's still no word on a fix for a zero-day attack vector in the ...