Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 17, 2011 9:00 PM
Plastic Logic is raising $700 million to open a new factory in Russia that will produce “next-generation plastic displays.” The company had said in November that it was taking a “significant investment” from the Russian government-owned Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (Rusnano) but had not specified how large that investment would…
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Staci D. Kramer
Aug 10, 2010 5:55 PM
Filling a CES booth with avid potential buyers and oohing-ahing spectators turned out to be a lot easier for Plastic Logic than actually shipping the highly anticipated and much-hyped Que e-reader. Instead of pretending it can deliver a high-end black-and-white e-reader that people will buy in an iPad world, Plastic…
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Staci D. Kramer
Nov 16, 2009 5:50 PM
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) introduced the second-gen Kindle earlier this year, it had no competition in the wireless e-reader category. By the holidays, it will be competing head on for consumers with the Daily Edition from Sony (NYSE: SNE), the unfortunately named DR8000SG from IREX Technologies, and a surprise entrant,…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 22, 2009 12:20 AM
Plastic Logic’s upcoming e-reader—they better come up with a more catchy name—will get wireless connectivity from AT&T (NYSE: T), reports WSJ. Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle has connectivity from Sprint (NYSE: S), and other competitor Sony (NYSE: SNE) Reader doesn’t have a wireless connection. In addition to the 3G connection, PL…
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