WD Buying Hitachi Storage Biz

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Tim Higgins

Western Digital is buying Hitachi‘s storage business.

WD will acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) in a $4.3 B cash and stock deal.

The transaction has been approved by the board of directors of each company and is expected to close during the third calendar quarter of 2011.

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