A profile of 114-year-old Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, whose market cap recently hit $100B after becoming an industrial software and hardware provider
New chief executive takes over streamlined conglomerate with most of its revenues and employees overseas
Hitachi says it will acquire US-based software developer GlobalLogic for $9.6B to expand its IoT platform Lumada
Nikkei Asia :
Hitachi says it is buying US factory robotics system integrator JR Automation for $1.42B, hoping to expand its IoT business in North America
The Tech Industry's Greatest Coach JR Automation / PR Newswire : Crestview Partners Sells JR Automation to Hitachi for $1.425 Billion See also Mediagazer
Hitachi announces new company, Hitachi Vantara, the merger of Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho, to be headquartered in Silicon Valley
Barb Darrow / Fortune :
Hitachi's Emiew3 humanoid robot is smaller and faster than Softbank's Pepper, speaks four languages, set for release in 2018
Hitachi readying robotic rival to SoftBank's Pepper — TOKYO — The android moves at a top speed of 6kph. In just a few years, it will provide customer service in airports …
Hitachi acquires Pentaho for between $500M and $600M to bolster data-analysis software tools
Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business :
Hitachi hard drives used by Backblaze have remarkably low failure rates versus Seagate, WD
What Hard Drive Should I Buy? — My last two blog posts were about expected drive lifetimes and drive reliability. These posts were an outgrowth of the careful work that we've done at Backblaze …
Western Digital cleared to buy Hitachi disk drive business
(Reuters) - 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 se...
Western Digital drops $4.3 billion to acquire Hitachi GST, enter staring contest with Seagate
Yow. Western Digital — the company responsible for shipping the planet's first 1TB 2.5-inch hard drive way back in 2009 — just announced a monstrous deal to acquire one of its primary competitors, Hi...