finance.yahoo.com - 1/13/2009
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In this file photo from Jan. 22, 2007, former Bill Watkins, then CEO of Seagate Technology, is shown at a meeting at Seagate offices in Fremont, Calif. Hard drive maker Seagate Technology said Monday Jan. 12, 2009 that it named Chairman Stephen J. Luczo to the additional posts of president and ...
seagate.custkb.com - 1/16/2009
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Welcome, Seagate hard drive owners. A number of
Seagate hard drives from the following families may become...
inaccessible when the host system is powered on: Barracuda 7200.11 DiamondMax 22 Barracuda ES.2 SATA
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theinquirer.net - 1/13/2009
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SEAGATE'S FLAGSHIP desktop Barracuda 7200.11 drives, in particular
the 1TB (ST31000340AS) units, are failing at an alarming...
rate and prompting outrage from their faithful customers. A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware ...
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seagate.custkb.com - 1/20/2009
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Seagate's board votes in a new CEO
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... . The paper says COO David Wickersham also stepped down, and it quotes an analyst who believes the changes "may stem from a difference of philosophy between Watkins and some other executives about how to revamp the struggling business." That same analyst doesn't expect a major sea change, though. According to the Associated Press, Seagate also intends to cut 10% of its U.S. workforce, and it recently trimmed its latest quarterly revenue forecast from $2.85-3.05 billion to $2.3-2.6 billion. Outside the storage industry, Watkins may be best remembered from his ...
Seagate fires CEO and 800 employees
DV Hardware —
... Seagate declined to make either executive available for comment.
The company also announced that it plans to cut 10 percent of its 8,000 U.S.-based workers. It has 53,000 workers worldwide.
A familiar face will fill the CEO slot. Stephen Luczo, 51, a former investment banker who served as Seagate's CEO from 1998 until 2004 amid a wrenching restructuring, will have to engineer another big turnaround to get the company back on track.
Source: AP Seagate fires CEO and 800 employees - More news at DV ...
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Seagate replaces CEO —
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Watkins out, chairman Luczo takes over Seagate has startlingly and suddenly replaced its long-serving CEO Bill Watkins with chairman Stephen Luczo.…
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