U.S. investment fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts said Wednesday it has decided to suspend a tender offer for Hitachi Ltd.'s chip manufacturing device maker Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., initially planned for early August. KKR has said it plans to conduct the tender offer for Hitachi Kokusai ...
Hitachi Ltd. says its artificial intelligence system has helped improve business performance by advising workers on how to increase their happiness. "In running organizations, we've relied on experience and gut feelings until now," Kazuo Yano, corporate chief scientist at Hitachi's Research & Development Group, said ...
Hitachi Ltd. said Wednesday it will sell its 51.7 percent stake in chip manufacturing device maker Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc. to U.S. investment fund Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to streamline operations and focus on core businesses. KKR plans to acquire all shares in Hitachi Kokusai through ...
Hitachi may work with a British investment fund to acquire Swiss power-meter maker Landis+Gyr, a Toshiba unit being considered for sale, sources said. The acquisition is expected to cost more than ¥200 billion. A recent proposal calls for CVC Capital Partners to acquire a majority stake ...
Kyushu University-launched venture Hirotsu Bio Science Inc. and Hitachi Ltd. have said they will conduct joint research to put cancer tests using nematodes into practical use as early as 2019. Hitachi will develop automatic analysis equipment for cancer detection utilizing the behavior of the worms ...
Hitachi Ltd. said it has applied for a site license to construct and operate nuclear power plants in Britain, aiming to start operations from the first half of the 2020s. Horizon Nuclear Power Ltd., Hitachi's British nuclear unit which was purchased from a major German ...
The government has asked former Hitachi Ltd. Chairman Takashi Kawamura, 77, to be the next chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., informed sources said. The government expects Kawamura, who led a quick turnaround at the electronics and machinery conglomerate, to reform Tepco, which ...
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC said that they have agreed to collaborate in the development of an advanced small modular reactor. GE Hitachi and ARC Nuclear hope that a small reactor that can be built at lower costs will meet replacement ...
Hitachi Ltd. said Thursday it has developed a technology to utilize bamboo as fuel for boilers and biomass power generation. The new technology is expected to address a situation in which unused bamboo forests have been increasing due to decreased bamboo demand, a problem that ...
Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. may put off the proposed integration of their nuclear fuel operations, which was expected as early as this spring, sources said Thursday. Discussions have not progressed as planned on which operational facilities the three companies should ...
A polite talking ted You may remember Paro, the therapeutic seal robot that has been successful enough to be used by therapists to help dementia patients with stress. Well now NTT DoCoMo has now collaborated with toy firm Iwaya, electronics maker Vitec and communication doll ...
The latest robot attempting to find the 600 tons of nuclear fuel and debris that melted down six years ago in the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant met its end in less than a day. The scorpion-shape machine, built by Toshiba Corp., entered ...
