Trend Micro does not rule out takeover -paper

TAIPEI, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Anti-virus software maker Trend Micro regularly receives takeover proposals and would consider any actual offers, although it prefers independence, a newspaper quoted the company's CEO as saying.

Taipei industry newspaper Digitimes quoted Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen as saying that if any offer attracted shareholders, she would respect their wishes, as one of the company founders.

The article did not mention any specific offers but linked the comments to Intel's recent takeover bid for anti-virus maker McAfee.

Chen also said she believes Trend Micro is worth more than McAfee, the paper reported.

The paper quoted Chen as saying that Trend Micro has spent $300 million in the last four years building a cloud computing infrastructure. Keywords: TRENDMICRO/ (Reporting by Jonathan Standing; Editing by Ken Wills; Reuters messaging [e-mail]; email [e-mail]; [phone]) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2010. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.