Sandisk Corporation was a leading supplier of flash memory cards. However, the company was troubled by the cyclical nature of its flash business. With rising competition, the flash memory market was witnessing an increasing degree of commoditisation. In the emerging business scenario, Sandisk...

Palm Inc was the world''s largest supplier of personal digital assistants (PDA''s). The company was troubled by the declining annual shipments of its products, which many analysts felt were primarily due to their slow technological obsolescence and increasing popularity of converged mobile...