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Re:Samsung Sold its Hard Drive Business to Seagate for $1.4 ... by chalst on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @04:08PM (#3379151)
It's not clear to me where you're going with that observation.
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Re:Samsung Sold its Hard Drive Business to Seagate for $1.4 ... by wmf on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @05:51PM (#3379484)
Should they cancel an acquisition because of a temporary manufacturing problem? IMO the flooding shouldn't affect our thinking about whether these deal are competitive or anticompetitive.
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Re:Samsung Sold its Hard Drive Business to Seagate for $1.4 ... by chalst on Thursday December 22, 2011 @04:19AM (#3380961)
When there are few suppliers, depressed demand makes it easy for oligopolists to behave like monopolists.

Should they cancel the deal? Certainly their shareholders wouldn't like them to do it out of the kindness of their hearts. I do think that competition watchdogs should be looking at HD mfers very closely now.

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