Additionally, cloud alternatives like Zoho, Google Docs, LotusLive Symphony and Acrobat.com are challenging the very notion of requiring desktop-based software to be productive in creating text, spreadsheet and presentation documents.

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Consider, for example, LeadShare, a particular feature of Slideshare, the popular online service for sharing presentation and documents over the Web.

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The site includes a full webcast of the presentation, as well as documents and filings that Ackman and his team referenced Thursday.

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But as made clear in documents seen by BBC News Online and distributed at the worldwide presentation to the content division - the section which generates the financial data Reuters sells to banks and other key customers - the move will almost certainly involve redundancies.

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Finally, Polaris Office lets provides robust word processing, spreadsheet and presentation capabilities, while S Pen support makes it a snap to mark up and annotate documents.

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