{"id":5805,"date":"2012-02-09T05:24:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2012-02-09T05:39:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T05:39:13","slug":"kaspersky-labs-sales-growth-slowed-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/5805\/kaspersky-labs-sales-growth-slowed-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspersky Lab&#8217;s sales growth slowed in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Kaspersky Lab reported that sales growth slowed substantially last year as the world&#8217;s No. 4 maker of anti-virus software said its business was starting to mature.<\/p>\n<p>The company, co-founded by computer security expert Eugene Kaspersky, said that sales grew 14 percent last year. That is down from growth of 38 percent in the prior year.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue totalled $612 million last year. The company declined to provide profit figures.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Garry Kondakov downplayed the decline, saying that the drop was a result of the company&#8217;s maturation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it is natural,&#8221; he said at a press briefing in Cancun, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Kaspersky Lab&#8217;s sales were still growing faster than the overall anti-virus market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Kaspersky Lab reported that sales growth slowed substantially last year as the world&#8217;s No. 4 maker of anti-virus software said its business was starting to mature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,591,1446,1447],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-anti-virus","tag-kaspersky","tag-slow-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5814,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions\/5814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}