Japan's Hitachi Ltd. said Friday that it plans to recall about 16,000 laptop battery packs made by Sony Corp., a company spokesman said, the latest in a massive global recall of the batteries that can ...

Hitachi joins most of the leading notebook computer makers in recalling batteries from Sony that are known to overheat and potentially cause fires. The recall is one of the smaller ones, affecting ...

Oh look, another battery recall (yeah I know, easy news). This time it’s Hitachi, and they’re recalling a relatively small 16,000 Sony-manufactured notebook batteries. Presumably the number is lower ...

TOKYO – Japan's Hitachi Ltd. (HIT) said Friday that it plans to recall about 16,000 laptop battery packs made by Sony Corp. (SNE), a company spokesman said, the latest in a massive global recall of ...

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