Q: Will there be an acquisition in the security space?
ELLISON: Sure, it’s possible.
ARGH! I hate the use of the word “space” in business/technology journalism. It’s so meaningless. What’s wrong with these other possibilities?
Will there be a security acquisition?
Will there be an acquisition in the security sector?
Will there be acquisition in security?
I’m reading John Battelle‘s The Search right now and he’s as guilty of it as anyone. I swear, if I hear about it one more time . . .
Cyrus Farivar is an Iranian-American freelance technology journalist, radio producer and author, currently living in the city of Bonn, Germany.
His book, "The Internet of Elsewhere" – about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea – was published by Rutgers University Press in April 2011. 
