Brussels, 24/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - On 23 November, the European Commission approved the proposed acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technology (HGST), a subsidiary of Hitachi of Singapore recently renamed Viviti Technologies, by rival Western Digital (WD) of the US. The approval is conditional upon certain commitments made by WD to: - divest essential production assets for the manufacture of 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs), including a production plant, the transfer or licensing of...