Sunday, October 28, 2012

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Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 02:06 PM PDT

Analysis: E-readers grapple with a future on the shelf 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 02:06 PM PDT
An Amazon Kindle, a Bookeen Cybook Odyssey, and a Sony Reader are pictured at E Ink Corporation in CambridgeSINGAPORE (Reuters) - Amidst our growing love affair with the tablet, spare a thought for its increasingly shelfbound sibling: the e-reader. Take Taiwan's E Ink Holdings Inc, which makes most of the monochrome displays for devices such as Amazon.com Inc's Kindle and Barnes & Noble Inc's Nook. After five years of heady growth during which shipments rose 100-fold, it got a jolt at the end of 2011 when monthly revenues dropped 91 percent in two months. "The bottom fell out of the market," says E Ink Chief Marketing Officer Sriram Peruvemba. ...
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SAP eyes "long" period of high sales growth: report 
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012 04:59 AM PDT
Logo of German company SAP is pictured at the CeBit computer fair in HanoverBERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's SAP may be able to sustain high sales from software and related services for a "very long time," co-chief executive Bill McDermott told a German newspaper. "It's our ambition to grow with double-digit numbers for a very long time to come," Euro am Sonntag quoted McDermott as saying in an interview published on Sunday. "I believe that's possible." The newspaper also cited the co-CEO as saying SAP currently has no plans for further acquisitions following the purchases of cloud-computing company Ariba and Success Factors. ...
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