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Toshiba near deal to buy Fujitsu HDD ops -- Nikkei | Markets | Markets News
NEW YORK, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp ( 6502.T ) is in the final stages of talks to buy the hard-disk drive business of Fujitsu Ltd ( 6702.T ) for 30 billion to 40 billion yen ($335 million to $447 million), the Nikkei financial daily reported. The deal, which would create the world's ...
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Toshiba said to be nearing deal to buy Fujitsu's hard drive business
Engadget — Hitachi may be out of the picture (if it was ever actually in the picture to begin with), but it looks like Toshiba is now very close to buying Fujitsu's hard drive business in a deal that's reported to be worth between 30 and 40 billion yen, or anywhere from $335 to $447 million. That would make Toshiba the world's largest supplier of hard drives for laptops and, according to Reuters, it could be all but a done deal by the end of the month, if a supposed meeting between company execs planned for this week goes as expected. The deal wouldn't include Fujitsu's plant ...

Toshiba, Fujitsu storage deal could go through soon
The Tech Report: News — ... — 6:00 AM on January 15, 2009 Tough economic times or not, Toshiba and Fujitsu are working on a deal to merge their mechanical storage businesses—and they may be getting close to an agreement . According to Reuters, that's the gist of an unsourced report from Japan's Nikkei financial paper. The deal would see Toshiba purchase Fujitsu's hard drive business, including two manufacturing plants located in Thailand and the Philippines, for the tidy sum of 30-40 billion yen. That's around $338-450 million in greenbacks. Reuters says the acquisition would create "the world's largest ...

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