In the early 1990s the company squandered enormous resources and billions of dollars on a series of failed consumer products like the Newton PDA. Its efforts to do everything itself, building capabilities as varied as cutting-edge hardware development and volume manufacturing, led to huge losses and massive layoffs.

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Apart from Newton, the only player left out of the squad which played in a quadrangular series in India earlier this year is Ebony Rainford-Brent.

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