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Archos tablets makes nice paperweights, but Seagate is still cool
Hard drive and storage company, Seagate, announced today that it is putting its super slim notebook hard drives to new use. The drives, aimed at ultra-portable devices can now be found in Archos‘ G9...
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When it rains … WD has to pay $525M to Seagate in trade-secret theft settlement
When it rains, it pours for hard disk maker WD. Already hit by floods in Thailand that have hobbled production of hard drives, WD has now been hit with an arbitration court decision ordering it to pay...
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For super-fast laptops, Seagate launches next-generation hybrid flash/hard drive
Seagate is now shipping a second-generation drive that combines chip-based flash memory with a mechanical hard disk. The combination results in a high-speed, high-capacity drive for laptops and the...
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Seagate gives you new entertainment choices with 4G LTE storage
Seagate is announcing today that it is teaming up with Verizon Wireless to create the first 4G LTE mobile wireless storage devices for use with smartphones and tablets. The devices use 4G LTE mobile...
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Holy hard drives! Seagate breaks terabit barrier, 60TB drive coming
Hard drive manufacturer Seagate has become the first company of its kind to reach the storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch, an incredible milestone that will lead to even...
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Seagate agrees to acquire LaCie for at least $186M
Seagate said it plans to acquire a controlling stake in Paris-based storage making LaCie for at least $186 million. Seagate, already one of the world’s largest hard drive makers, will buy the French...
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GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. This week, game developer 38...
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Seagate invests in Israel’s DensBits to overhaul its flash memory strategy
Seagate is one of the world’s biggest hard disk drive makers, but these days, storage is growing well beyond spinning disks. That’s why Seagate is announcing an investment and strategic agreement with...
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Weaker Q2 tech earnings could make investors jittery
Earnings season starts this week for tech companies, and no one is expecting outstanding second-quarter results. If the reports turn out to be weaker than expected, then tech investors might run for...
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Seagate’s Wireless Plus mobile storage lets you take your whole media...
When you’re out in the great outdoors, the last thing you want is to run out of videos to watch and music to listen to. OK, sarcasm aside, Seagate is launching a very cool gadget that will let you...
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Seagate dumps $40M into Flash-storage startup Virident
Today, hard drive giant Seagate announced it’s investing a huge $40 million chunk of change in Virident, a startup focused on Flash storage. With the investment, Seagate will buy itself a board seat...
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Funding Daily: Dancing on my own
I love to dance. This does not mean I am good at it. Sure I used to take jazz and hip hop classes at summer camp and swung dance myself into a tizzy at Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, but I wouldn’t exactly call...
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Seagate shipped a billion hard drives in the last four years — thanks, data...
Our never-ending hunger for data is helping Seagate make lots of money. The hard drive manufacturer said today that it’s finally shipped its 2 billionth drive. Seagate says it attributes the feat in...
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Seagate moves deeper into flash memory as it launches consumer solid-state...
Seagate was born many decades ago as a pioneer in hard disk drives, which are now generating $10 billion a year in revenue for the company. But now it is launching its own line of flash memory-based...
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Will flash or disk drives own the future of data storage?
GUEST: This is a guest post by Gary Gentry, SVP of solid state drives at Seagate. “Flash or disk?” That question — whether the future of data storage would be defined by flash memory or hard drives —...
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Seagate invests in custom chip design firm eASIC
Storage giant Seagate has made a strategic equity investment in custom chip design firm eASIC. The companies didn’t disclose the amount of the deal. On top of the investment, both companies are...
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Funding Daily: Hot off the press
Acquisition news usually does not get included in Funding Daily, but today I am making an exception. Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million. As a journalist and D.C. native, this news...
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Seagate disrupts cloud economics with storage that can cut infrastructure...
Seagate is launching a new cloud storage platform today that it says will fundamentally alter the economics for internet infrastructure. The Cupertino, Calif.-based storage giant says that its Seagate...
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Thin, fast, and big capacity: Seagate launches a little backup drive that can...
Seagate is taking personal storage to new heights as it announces its Backup Plus Fast portable drive with 4 terabytes of data in a small black box. The box has twice the capacity and speed of existing...
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Seagate launches a 2-terabyte game drive for Xbox consoles
Seagate is announcing today it is launching a 2-terabyte hard disk drive for the Microsoft Xbox One and Xbox 360 video game consoles. Making the announcement at the Gamescom fan show in Cologne,...
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