Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) develops advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, and innovative external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world's most valued data.

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"Computers may come and go, but your personal data remains and continues to grow exponentially, which is why you need reliable storage solutions to help store, preserve and manage your most valued data, " said Mike Williams, vice president and general manager, HGST Branded Business.

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The technological shift from desk-bound personal computers to wireless devices is driving the FTC's push for major revisions to the law, known as COPPA. It was written before an era of cellphones and tablets loaded with apps that can be designed to siphon up a person's precise location and other personal data highly valued by advertisers and data brokers.

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In many ways, access to customer data is what differentiates valued email marketing messages from irrelevant, untargeted spam.

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Privately held companies, for whom in most cases only 2004 data were readily available, were valued based on comparisons to prevailing price-to-earnings or price-to-sales ratios for similar publicly traded companies.

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Q-Logic is an inexpensively valued, highly profitable manufacturer of adapter cards used to connect the various storage devices and servers found in data centers.

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