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Hitachi, Toshiba Receive Subpoenas in Optical Disk Inquiry
KAZUHIRO SHIMAMURA, AYAI TOMISAWA AND BRENT KENDALL Japanese technology giants Hitachi Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday that, like Sony Corp., their optical disk drive operations in the U.S. received subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice in a widening investigation into potential ...
News Release 22 Oct, 2009
News Release 22 Oct, 2009
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Toshiba Dynario fuel-cell: the battery revolution begins October 29th
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engadget.com — We can hardly believe it but the day has finally arrived: Toshiba just launched the first Dynario... fuel-cell for portable consumer electronics. That's right, the long promised and highly anticipated direct methane fuel-cell (DMFC) with dedicated ... (more) Toshiba Dynario fuel-cell: the battery revolution begins ...
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Hitachi and Toshiba subpoenaed in DOJ optical drive price fixing probe
Engadget — ... We kinda knew that there couldn't be any antitrust smoke without the fire of market collusion, and sure enough, Sony Optiarc has been joined on the naughty step by Hitachi-LG Data Storage and Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corp. As the names should tell ...

US DOJ subpoenas Hitachi, Toshiba, and Sony in antitrust investigation
SlashGear — ... The Wall Street Journal reports that the US DOJ issued the subpoenas in an investigation of alleged price fixing in the optical drive segments of each business. The companies say that their optical drive businesses in the US will cooperate fully with the inquiry. Details of the subpoenas were not revealed. ...

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