Seagate's Channel on the Fritz?Phone Plus, AZSome VARs are speculating that digital storage solution provider Seagate's entire channel program will be cut due to some heavy layoffs in its VAR sales and marketing team. A Seagate spokesman said the layoffs were part of a company-wide cutback, …

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Closures & Layoffs (May 17-23): amex, HP, Medtronic, Seagate …CoStar Group, MDSeagate Technology in Scotts Valley, CA, has initiated a restructuring plan that includes a reduction of approximately 1100 employees or 2.5% of the company's global workforce. The restructuring plan is expected to be largely complete by the end of …

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MacVideo.tvSeagate portable drive buyers get free short filmsMacVideo.tv, UKShort film network Future Shorts has partnered with Seagate to offer free downloads of short films to people who buy one of the company's FreeAgent Go portable hard drives. The sleek pocket-sized device is available in capacities of up to 500GB. …

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Seagate to give pink slips to 104 Scotts Valley employeesSan Jose Mercury News,  USABy Ramona Turner and Jondi Gumz – Sentinel staff writers SCOTTS VALLEY — Seagate Technology is laying off 104 employees from its Disc Drive campus, according to Mayor Randy Johnson, who received a federally mandated notice about the job cuts. …

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tivo Will Not Approve (or Even Test) Seagate Showcase and Other …Gizmodo.comI don't know if this is a pro-Western Digital story or an anti-tivo story, but I just learned that the companies are so cozy together, DVR expanders from Seagate or others are officially blocked. Am I pissed off? Yes, because Seagate just sent over …

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