Symantec to lay-off 10 per cent of staff as it prepares to split in two

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Around 2,000 staff to be made redundant in preparation for company split

Security software giant Symantec is to make around 2,000 staff redundant - about 10 per cent of the total - as it shapes up in advance of a plan to split the company in two. The company declined...

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