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Hitachi to buy US software developer GlobalLogic for $12.6 billion

By Makiko Yamazaki and Sam Nussey

Apr 1 2021 12:56AM

Pivots from electronics hardware to digital services.

Hitachi to buy US software developer GlobalLogic for $12.6 billion

Hitachi will buy US software company GlobalLogic for US$9.6 billion (A$12.6 billion), including repayment of debt, as the Japanese industrial conglomerate pivots from electronics hardware to digital services. The deal is the biggest Japanese outbound acquisition of a US hi-tech company on ...

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