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Seagate Buys Samsung Electronics Division

Seagate Technology is to buy Samsung’s loss-making hard-disk-drive business in a deal worth US$1.4bn. The acquisition comes one month after rival Western Digital sought to buy the hard-disk-drive unit of Hitachi.

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