Hardware Industry Western Digital exits SSD market, shifts focus to hard drives as SanDisk takes over NAND operations WD branding on SSDs may disappear soon By Skye Jacobs, March 6, 2025, 8:49 AM 25 comments
Industry Western Digital to spin off flash memory business after Kioxia merger talks collapse Western Digital won't merge with Kioxia (at least, not right now) By Shawn Knight, October 30, 2023, 10:52 AM
Hardware Industry What has Broadcom become? The truth is Broadcom is not a semiconductor company. Nor is it a software company. It is a private equity fund... By Jonathan Goldberg, August 10, 2022, 6:05 AM
Security Software LogMeIn to spin out password management tool LastPass LogMeIn purchased LastPass in 2015 By Shawn Knight, December 14, 2021, 3:23 PM
Industry IBM is breaking up into two companies, renewed focus on AI and the cloud IBM is no stranger to strategic spinoffs By Samuel Gush, October 9, 2020, 3:13 PM
Gaming Acer is spinning off its Predator gaming brand into a separate business Let's hope the 'Gadget Technology' name doesn't stick By Rob Thubron, August 12, 2018, 8:58 AM
Industry Security Intel sells majority stake in McAfee security business By Shawn Knight, September 8, 2016, 7:30 AM
Industry AMD to spin off testing and assembly operations into joint venture By Tim Schiesser, October 16, 2015, 2:00 PM
Industry Mobile Layoffs expected this week at Qualcomm as company ponders strategic split By Shawn Knight, July 21, 2015, 1:45 PM
Industry The Web PayPal makes its second debut on the Nasdaq, valued at more than $50 billion By Shawn Knight, July 20, 2015, 2:30 PM
Industry Symantec becomes third major tech company to announce split in two weeks By Shawn Knight, October 9, 2014, 7:45 PM 7 comments
Industry Software Symantec may join the spin-off bandwagon, break up into two companies By Himanshu Arora, October 8, 2014, 11:15 AM
Industry eBay reportedly considering spinning off PayPal as early as 2015 By Shawn Knight, August 21, 2014, 3:30 PM
Industry Hardware Billionaire investor says Sony should sell off entertainment business By Dave LeClair, May 14, 2013, 2:00 PM
Industry Samsung considers LCD unit spinoff to focus on OLED By Lee Kaelin, February 15, 2012, 11:00 AM
Industry Hardware HP rethinking PC unit spinoff, report says By Jose Vilches, October 12, 2011, 11:03 AM