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Western Digital and Kioxia Merger Blocked By SK Hynix & Bain Capital
Western Digital and Kioxia were recently in talks to close a potential merger of the two companies with an aim by the end of October, unfortunately for the two storage giants, SK Hynix has not approved the deal effectively cancelling it. WD & Kioxia Deal Scrapped A report from NIKKEI…
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KIOXIA To Close Merger Deal with Western Digital Very Soon
KIOXIA and Western Digital are best for their storage products which many of us are likely using in our rigs as they both offer good storage solutions. Recent news has come forward from kyodonews.net (Via TPU) that the two companies are close to closing a merger deal. WD and KIOXIA…
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Deadline For Microsoft, Activision Blizzard Merger To Be Postponed
Following Microsoft’s Success with the FTC over its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, there was only one hurdle left in the form of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority. Unfortunately for the two, appealing against the CMA has required the July 18th deadline to be officially pushed back to October 18th.…
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Kioxia and Western Digital in Huge Merger Talks?
With data storage currently representing one of the biggest and competitive hardware markets, it’s hard to deny that, for this particular market, Samsung represents arguably one of the biggest companies in the world. – Following a report via TechPowerUp, however, the landscape might be set for a colossally huge shake-up…
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Facebook Charged With Misleading Over WhatsApp Merger
Facebook has been accused of deliberately misleading the European Commission (EC) over its merger with instant messaging app WhatsApp. Prior to the $22 billion merger, Facebook claimed that it would not be able to combine user data from the social networking site with the WhatsApp database, a claim that has…
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Regulators Approve WD-SanDisk Merger
One of the biggest storage mergers to take place in recent memory has moved a step closer to completion. Two months after shareholders from Western Digital and SanDisk approved the deal, the last regulator has given the nod to the amalgamation. This means the deal will finally close today and…
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VAIO, Fujitsu and Toshiba PC Division Merger Stalls
With the PC market being increasingly commoditized, those firms without economies of scale are seeing their PC divisions are more of a liability than an asset. After being spun off from Sony nearly 3 years ago, VAIO entered talks with Fujitsu and Toshiba to merge their PC divisions together. Combined,…
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Semiconductor Marvell Could be up for Sale
The semiconductor industry is a tough area to operate in and it is a dog-eat-dog world, and now it looks like Marvell Technology Group could be the next to be swallowed by a bigger dog on the market. According to an article in the New York Post, the chip maker could…
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VAIO Wants Merger With Toshiba and Fujitec PC Divisions
After being spun off from Sony two years ago, it looks like VAIO is planning to expand its PC operations. Despite the doom and gloom in the PC market, VAIO is reportedly planning a merger with the PC divisions of Toshiba and Fujitec, two other major Japanese PC OEMs. In…
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Wall Street Analysts Want Qualcomm to Merge with Intel or AMD
Despite being one of the largest firms in the smartphone SoC market, Qualcomm has been seen some trouble recently. Just a few months ago, the firm had considered splitting into separate licencing and manufacturing segments. While that idea silently died a quickly deserved death, it seems like Wall Street still…
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Western Digital Just Bought SanDisk
Western Digital is one of the leading factors in traditional storage, both for consumers and enterprises alike, but a lot of the future will be in solid state drives and they naturally don’t want to be left out of that race. Western Digital isn’t entirely new to the solid state…
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Intel Agrees $16.7 Billion Purchase of Altera Corp
Chip giant Intel has agreed a deal to buy PLD (programmable logic device) manufacturer Altera for $16.7 billion, consolidating the company’s presence in data centres. Intel will pay $54 a share, all-cash, for Altera at a premium of 11% over its closing share price on Friday. The Intel/Altera merger comes…
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O2 Sold to Three for over £10 Billion
The deal has been finalised and the British operation of Telefónica, O2, has been sold to Three. The people behind Three, Hutchison Whampoa have signed the final deal and O2 is being sold for £10.25 billion (€14 billion). The sales price is divided into £9.25 billion in cash and another £1…
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Coalition Forms to Fight the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger
A collection of disparate groups, ranging from the Parents Television Council to the Writers Guild of America, have formed a coalition called StopMegaComcast to kill the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable. “A competitive and diverse media and technology marketplace is fundamental to the health of our economy and…
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Rumour: Microsoft Trying To Buy Nokia Handset Business
Microsoft and Nokia are known to have a very good company relationship as Nokia is Microsoft’s number one partner when it comes to shifting Windows based smartphones. According to The Wall Street Journal Microsoft is looking to buy Nokia’s handset business. Apparently though the discussions were going well until the…
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