The company's claim to fame is its CCleaner application, a very popular OS optimization utility with versions for Windows, Mac, and Android.Īccording to Piriform, CCleaner has over 130 million users on desktop and over 15 million users on mobile. Piriform is a privately held company based in London, UK, founded back in 2004. The acquisition was announced today in a press release and on the blogs of both companies, but no financial details are currently available.
Avast, today's largest vendor of security software, has acquired Piriform, a UK-based company that is behind many successful desktop and mobile apps, such as CCleaner, Recuva, Speccy, and Defraggler.
