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IRVINE, Calif., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital(®) Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that the company will release its financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended March 29, 2013 after the close of the market on Wednesday, April 24, 2013. The investment community conference call to discuss these results will be broadcast live over the Internet that day at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern. The live and archived conference call webcast can be accessed online at...

First in a Family of High-performance and Slim Drives for Ultra-portable Devices Feature Innovative Mechanical Designs and Solid State Hybrid Drive Technology IRVINE, Calif., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and world leader in storage and connected-life products, today announced it is shipping the world's first ultra-slim 2.5-inch, 5 mm hard drives and solid state hybrid drives (SSHD), which are designed for integration into the...

New 3.5-Inch WD Performance Adapter Readies 2.5-Inch SAS Drives for Legacy 3.5-inch Datacenter Storage Systems IRVINE, Calif., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and a world leader in storage, today announced a new 3.5-inch SAS hard drive solution for legacy datacenter storage systems with the release of the WD XE(TM), 2.5-inch, 10,000 RPM SAS hard drive, now available mounted in a 3.5-inch WD performance adapter. Shipping immediately, the...

LONDON, April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Data usage has been rising as more and more users switch to smartphones and tablets. Increasing data usage is expected to drive growth for data storage devices makers such as Seagate Technology Plc (NASDAQ: STX), SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), and OCZ Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: OCZ). Another major trend to emerge in recent years has been cloud computing, which is also expected to be a key...

WD SmartWare(TM) Pro Gives Customers Peace of Mind that Photos, Videos and Other Files are Securely Protected on an External Hard Drive or Dropbox IRVINE, Calif., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) company, and a world leader in storage solutions for the connected life, today unveiled WD SmartWare(TM) Pro, an easy-to-use software tool that gives customers the power to back up their files to any USB external hard drive or the cloud using their...

IRVINE, Calif., April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital(®) Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that the company will release its financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended March 29, 2013 after the close of the market on Wednesday, April 24, 2013. The investment community conference call to discuss these results will be broadcast live over the Internet that day at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern. The live and archived conference call webcast can be accessed online at...

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Skyera Inc. and Western Digital® Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that Skyera has received strategic funding from Western Digital Capital as part of its recently announced Series B round of financing. Western Digital Capital co-invested in the $51 million round as an extension of the strategic relationship between the two companies that also includes joint technology development. Western Digital had previously funded Skyera as its...

Long Adds Expertise to Accelerate Company's Strategic Growth Initiatives IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital(®) Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that Mark Long has been named executive vice president of strategy and corporate development. Long has an extensive background in corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and investment banking. He will oversee Western Digital's strategic planning and be responsible for the company's...

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Digital(®) Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that the Board of Directors declared a cash dividend for the quarter ending March 29, 2013, of $0.25 per share of common stock (the "Cash Dividend"). The cash dividend will be paid on April 15, 2013, to the company's stockholders of record as of March 29, 2013. On September 13, 2012, the company indicated that beginning in its current fiscal year 2013, it is targeting a return to...

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WD(®), a Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) company, and a world leader in storage solutions for the connected life, today unveils WD TV(®) Play(TM), a versatile media player that streams popular Internet channels, as well as personal photos, music and movies from other networked devices in the home, directly to an HDTV. Priced at just $69.99 USD, WD TV Play expands upon the existing WD TV family of products, offering an engaging new...