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...The archetype for a Silver Lake deal was the 2000 buyout of Seagate, the disc drive maker, which delivered a return of five times its investment....
...Seagate’s shares tumbled on Thursday after the data storage maker reduced its quarterly sales outlook amid lower demand for its hard drives....
...“It means that we are practically blind, and cannot detect hard drives that have been infected by this malware.”...
...standard hard drives....
...Seagate has launched a new line of external hard drives – the first to be able to backup photos stored on your social networks....
...The leading hard drive makers seem set on reinventing themselves – extending not just their storage capacities but their product lines as well....
...But hard disc drive manufacturer Seagate Technology surged 14.25 per cent to $30.60....
...Samsung attributed the robust projections to the strong performance of its handset division, further bolstered by a one-time gain from the $1.4bn sale of its hard disk drive business to Seagate Technology...
...The company’s other supplier of 3½-inch hard drives, Seagate, has also been affected by the flooding, but not to the same extent as Western Digital....
...a firm line on the US group’s bid to buy Hitachi’s hard drive business....
...This spring, two hard-disk drive manufacturers announced acquisitions, with Seagate making an accepted offer for Samsung’s HDD unit, and Western Digital doing the same for Hitachi’s....
...Mark Brewer, the long-serving CIO at Seagate, the hard-drive manufacturer, agrees. But he cautions that moving IT processes to the cloud does not always save money....
...The player is part of a complete refresh of Seagate’s FreeAgent Go line of products, which Paul Taylor will look at in depth in his Friday personal technology column....
...Bill Watkins, former chief executive of hard-drive maker Seagate, took over as CEO of Bridgelux last week after being wowed by the potential of the industry....
...It is also a good idea to pack a portable drive with automatic back-up such as Seagate’s $70 (£85) FreeAgent Go ....
...He then joined Conner, a hard-drive company, which was taken over by Seagate in 1996....
...Seagate, the leading maker of hard drives, has come up with a storage solution, unveiled at the Demo ’07 conference in Palm Desert, California....
...Seagate Technology believes it has the answer with a new line of portable hard disks that allow users to replicate not just data but browser favourites, passwords and other personal settings on any host...
...Seagate Technology, which makes computer hard drives, rose 3.8 per cent to $12.32 after forecasting quarterly sales and earnings above Wall Street estimates amid stronger demand....
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