BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission said on Thursday it had cleared Western Digital’s planned acquisition of SanDisk after concluding that the takeover would not harm competition in the data storage market in Europe.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – IBM’s efforts to bolster its cloud offerings could get a boost from new developer tools it is unveiling on Thursday.

Former Governor of the Bank of England Lord King joins the board of directors at Premier League strugglers Aston Villa.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese industrial conglomerate Toshiba Corp expects a bigger full-year loss than previously anticipated, amid mounting restructuring costs after a $1.3 billion accounting scandal.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Hackers in China attempted to access over 20 million active accounts on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s Taobao e-commerce website using Alibaba’s own cloud computing service, according to a state media report posted on the Internet regulator’s website.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – An EU watchdog said on Wednesday it needed time to study a new EU-U.S. agreement on data transfers to determine whether the United States was committed to limiting intelligence surveillance of Europeans.