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William Watkins, the former chief executive of Seagate Technology who departed in a January management shake-up by the disk drive manufacturer, was named Tuesday to the board of directors at Flextronics, the Singapore supplier of electronics contract manufacturing services with U.S. operations based in San Jose.

Watkins will be paid $60,000 for his service on the board and Read the rest of this entry »

Flextronics, the Singapore electronics manufacturing services provider with U.S. operations based in San Jose, said Tuesday it intends to restructure itself, blaming the current economic crisis and a related decline in demand from the company’s original-equipment manufacturing clients.

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