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Toshiba Secures Acquisition Of IBM’s Point-Of-Sale Unit

Toshiba has agreed to pay US$850m to buy IBM’s point-of-sale (POS) business, making Toshiba the biggest POS system provider in the world. IBM’s retail solutions business unit posted revenues of US$1.15bn last year.

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