Western Digital has secured conditional approval from the European Union’s competition regulator to purchase Hitachi’s hard disk drive business for $4.3 billion, after it agreed to sell several production operations. Western Digital, the world’s second-biggest player in the hard disk drive (HDD) sector, and Hitachi, the third-biggest, unveiled the deal in March, which is aimed […]
EU regulator ”concerned” over cellphone patents war
EU regulators investigating Apple and Samsung Electronics over their patents dispute are worried intellectual property rights may be unfairly used by some firms against their rivals, the EU antitrust chief said on Tuesday. The European Commission earlier this month asked Apple and Samsung for details on patents used as standards in the mobile telephone industry. […]
EU Commission probes Samsung, Apple over patents
EU regulators are investigating whether Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc may have breached EU antitrust laws with patent infringement claims in their global legal battle over the lucrative smartphone and tablet market. The two technology companies are embroiled in more than 20 legal disputes in 10 countries. “The (European) Commission has indeed sent […]