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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 »

Seagate Technology is set to pay $2.5 million any day now to the chief executive it fired last month, according to the terms of his “separation and release” agreement the company filed Tuesday with the SEC as an amendment to its quarterly financials.

The money is to be paid to him with ten Read the rest of this entry »