{"id":2706,"date":"2008-10-02T07:18:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T11:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/2e2c30ca7232fc1099fef46f60b6dcf4"},"modified":"2008-10-02T07:18:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T11:18:42","slug":"fujitsu-might-buy-western-digital-hard-drive-business-for-945-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2706","title":{"rendered":"Fujitsu Might Buy Western Digital Hard Drive Business for ~$945 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#39;s Fujitsu Ltd is said to be in talks with Western Digital Corp and others on the sale of its money-losing hard drive business, a company source said on Thursday. Reports that it was in talks sent Fujitsu&#39;s share price up 3.3 percent to 620 yen, against the benchmark Nikkei&#39;s 0.3 percent rise at 0008 GMT. Fujitsu denied that it was now approaching an agreement or arranging a sale.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fujitsu and Western Digial are negotiating a price of 70 billion yen to 100 billion yen ($661.5 million to $945 million), the Nikkei business daily reported Thursday morning. &#8220;There is no truth at this time to the Nikkei report concerning our hard drive business,&#8221; Fujitsu said in a statement. Fujitsu, which also competes with International Business Machines Corp and Electronic Data Systems Corp in IT services, is trying to focus more resources on its IT consulting business.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#39;s Fujitsu Ltd is said to be in talks with Western Digital Corp and others on the sale of its money-losing hard drive business, a company source said on Thursday. Reports that it was in talks sent Fujitsu&#39;s share price up 3.3 percent to 620 yen, against the benchmark Nikkei&#39;s 0.3 percent rise at 0008 GMT. Fujitsu denied that it was now approaching an agreement or arranging a sale.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fujitsu and Western Digial are negotiating a price of 70 billion yen to 100 billion yen ($661.5 million to $945 million), the Nikkei business daily reported Thursday morning. &#8220;There is no truth at this time to the Nikkei report concerning our hard drive business,&#8221; Fujitsu said in a statement. Fujitsu, which also competes with International Business Machines Corp and Electronic Data Systems Corp in IT services, is trying to focus more resources on its IT consulting business.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2706\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}