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Seagate announces 800 job cuts, new CEO
News Seagate Technology said on Monday it was cutting its US workforce by 10 percent, equivalent to about 800 people, and that its two most senior executives had resigned. Watkins has been immediately replaced as chief executive by Stephen Luczo, who...
[January 13, 2009, 12:32]
Seagate to go private in $20 billion deal
News Under the terms of a $20 billion agreement unveiled after market close Thursday, the storage technology company would sell its 33 percent stake of Veritas Software back to Veritas while a private investment group led by Silver Lake Partners would...
[March 30, 2000, 9:30]
Seagate claims hard drive breakthrough
News If Seagate's claims are correct, the $50 billion a year data storage industry will receive a major boost. Seagate can be contacted on 0181 566 2330. A mechanism incorporating new Optically Assisted Winchester technology uses lasers, microscopic...
[February 17, 1998, 11:56]
Seagate reveals hard drive roadmap
News Seagate Technology on Wednesday announced new lines of hard drives geared toward quenching the thirst for high-capacity handhelds, digital media management and cross-platform syncing. Seagate's DB35 Series of hard drives, intended for digital video...
[June 8, 2006, 9:25]
Seagate wants to help digitise your lifestyle
News Later this month, Seagate Technology will close its earlier-announced $1.9bn (£1bn) acquisition of Maxtor. If you believe in the story of storage growth, then Seagate is in the best position to take advantage of that growth.
[May 8, 2006, 14:40]
Seagate to make flash-based hard drives
News Seagate Technology, the number-one maker of magnetic hard drives, will start manufacturing hard drives based around flash memory, according to its chief executive officer Bill Watkins. Seagate's decision is a significant turning point for the...
[August 23, 2007, 16:33]
Seagate launches hard drives with encryption
News Seagate Technology on Monday plans to announce the first manufacturer to sell laptop PCs with Seagate's new hard drive that has built-in encryption technology. The Seagate drives are equipped with the company's new "DriveTrust" technology, which...
[March 12, 2007, 8:37]
Seagate takes $300m charge
News Seagate Technology Inc.said its second-quarter loss will be worse than expected after the disk-drive maker takes a $300 million charge for restructuring and other one-time charges related to the closing of a manufacturing plant in Ireland.
[January 8, 1998, 10:29]
Seagate tops 1Q estimates
News Disk-drive and software developer Seagate Technology easily topped analysts' estimates in its first quarter Tuesday, raking in $62m, or 26 cents a share, on sales of $1.75bn. Seagate shares closed off $1 to $62.94 ahead of the earnings report.
[October 11, 2000, 11:06]
Storage firms develop extra drives for DVR
News Maxtor and Seagate Technology have plans to add external hard drives to DVRs in a bid to give consumers more storage capacity and ease potential headaches for cable and satellite network companies. Besides offering to work with cable, satellite and...
[April 29, 2004, 9:05]
Seagate invests in nanotech
News Seagate Technology, a company that designs, manufactures and markets hard drives, announced on Wednesday that it will invest over $300m m) at its two manufacturing plants in Northern Ireland over the next four years.
[December 14, 2005, 16:25]
Seagate shows full-disk encryption for laptops
News Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology on Monday provided more details on encryption technology designed to make life tougher for computer thieves. Users will have to completely shut down their Vista computers for the Seagate technology to be effective.
[October 31, 2006, 8:00]
All About LTO Tapes....
Blog The technology was developed and initiated by Seagate, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. IBM, HP and Seagate sought to counter this by introducing a more open format. LTO is a magnetic tape data storage technology developed as an open alternative to the...
[July 25, 2008, 10:04]
Seagate brings perpendicular storage to the enterprise
News Seagate has announced its first 3.5in disk drives using the groundbreaking perpendicular storage technology that it hopes will break through the storage limitations that are beginning to impact on hard-drive technology.
[April 18, 2006, 13:45]
Tiny-drive maker fights back against Seagate
News Cornice on Wednesday said it filed counterclaims against Seagate Technology in the US District Court for the District of Delaware in response to a patent infringement complaint filed by Seagate in June.
[August 19, 2004, 11:40]
Seagate buys big to build new hard drive paradigm
News Seagate is hoping to build a new direction for hard disk development by acquiring a startup that implements optical technology on Winchester drives to increase data density. The integration .is an ideal combination to develop concepts and solutions...
[July 3, 1997, 10:17]
Industry divided over future of hard drives
News We need to maintain that 40 percent areal-density growth rate, at a minimum, to stay ahead of flash, and we are dang well going to do it," said Mark Kryder, chief technology officer at Seagate. Seagate and Hitachi, as well as other drive makers...
[August 29, 2006, 13:25]
Seagate to avoid solid-state drives for now
News The chief executive of storage company Seagate said on Tuesday that, while flash memory and solid-state drives are becoming increasing popular, he does not see his company moving into the market in the immediate future.
[November 5, 2008, 14:09]
Seagate unveils 12GB minidrive
News It also offers a new optional drop sensor for increased robustness, the company said in a statement, and is the first one-inch drive to use Seagate's perpendicular storage technology. Seagate and Cornice both launched new compact hard drives on...
[February 13, 2006, 17:20]
Terabyte hard drives are ready
News Rival Seagate Technology will come out with a 1TB drive in the first half of 2007. Currently, Hitachi sells 3.5-inch drives that hold 500GB of data, while Seagate has come out with a 750GB data drive.
[January 5, 2007, 7:44]
