back to article Toshiba sues WDC for a cool billion bucks

Toshiba is suing WDC in a Tokyo court for ¥120bn ($1bn, £830m), alleging unfair competition. It alleges WDC has "interfered" with the bid process related to the sale of Toshiba’s Memory Corporation (TMC) business. The overall background to this tortuously complicated issue by the financially threatened Toshiba can be read …

  1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    What's the exchange rate between a cool billion bucks and a DUP?

    1. Aladdin Sane

      Depends on the specific heat capacities involved.

    2. Swarthy

      DUP to USD1,000,000,000

      According to the highest authority 1 BEEELLION US dollars is about 0.773DUP.

      1. Aladdin Sane

        Re: DUP to USD1,000,000,000

        But is that a cool BEEELLION, a warm BEEELLION or a hot BEEELLION?

        I prefer my BEEELLION cooked so rare it still smells of the farm.

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