Western Digital

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics posted a 58.57 percent rise in first-quarter net profits yesterday, largely driven by steady memory chip demand and brisk smartphone sales.

U.S. tech titans Apple and Dell have joined a bid to buy Toshiba's memory chip business, a deal seen as key to the survival of the cash-stripped Japanese industrial conglomerate, the US investor leading the consortium has said.

At a train station used by hundreds of workers at struggling Japanese electronics giant Toshiba, an advert is apparently trying to poach staff worried by their employer's precarious financial position.