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Plastic Logic Is Raising $700 Million To Open A New Factory In Russia

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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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Countries, Europe, Russia, plastic logic

Plastic Logic Gives In To Reality; Cancels Highly Hyped Que

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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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, plastic logic, que

How Wireless E-Readers Stack Up

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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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Companies, Amazon, Kindle, Barnes & Noble, Nook, Sony, irex, plastic logic, que

AT&T To Provide Data Connectivity For Plastic Logic’s E-Reader; More AT&T Network Overload

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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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Companies, AT&T, plastic logic

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