(CLICK HERE TO ENLARGE THE CHART) Consumers have voted with their wallets and now it is official that Windows 8 is a flop. The new data from IDC show the steepest decline for PCs in one quarter. Only 76.3 million PCs were shipped in the first quarter of 2013. This number is
Thailand is the center of disk drive manufacturing. Recent flooding in Thailand damaged a large number of manufacturing facilities resulting in a lack of adequate supply of disk drives. Seagate [s:STX] is one of the largest manufacturers of disk drives in the world. Compared to the competitors, Thailand
Western Digital (WDC), the largest player in the disk drive business, announced acquisition of the number three player Hitachi GST (HIT). The real winners are not Western Digital or Hitachi, but two other companies. Seagate Technology Seagate Technology (STX) is the second largest hard disk manufacturer with about 30% market