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Apple was interested in acquiring Palm before HP sealed the deal
Dan Frommer of Business Insider sheds some light on some of the other tech companies who considered making a play for Palm, who were ultimately acquired by HP for a cool $1.2 billion. Notably, and quite surprisingly, Apple was strongly considering a Palm buyout before the HP deal eventually went down. Citing a source familiar with the negotiations, [...]
Continue reading...Lynn Fox, former head of PR at Apple and Palm, will not continue on at HP
Saturday, June 26, 2010
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Hewlett Packard spiced things up in the tech world not too long ago when it purchased Palm for $1.2 billion. At the core of HP’s decision to splurge was Palm’s heralded WebOS, which HP plans to put on a tablet of some sort in the near future. In the wake of the acquisition, a number of [...]
Continue reading...Palm confused about the delay in porting Flash over to WebOS
Monday, June 21, 2010
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Electronista reports: Adobe hasn’t given any signs that it’s close to porting Flash to webOS, Palm said in an AT&T online app development seminar on Thursday. When asked about the multiple delays, a representative said that Palm didn’t ‘know what the hold-up is’ with getting it ready. Adobe itself hasn’t commented on the state of the webOS [...]
Continue reading...Designer of webOS notifications, Rich Delliger, returns to Apple
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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During the development of the Palm Pre, a significant number of Apple engineers abandoned ship for Palm. The most notable Apple employee to head over to Palm was, of course, former Apple executive Jon Rubinstein. In any event, Palm’s raid on Apple talent naturally aroused the ire of Steve Jobs, who reportedly engaged in a [...]
Continue reading...HP CEO says Palm acquisition had nothing to do with smartphones
Friday, June 4, 2010
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Back in April, HP purchased Palm for $1.2 billion Earlier this week at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch technology conference, Hewlett-Pacakrd CEO Mark Hurd explained that the Palm acquisition was more about purchasing IP and obtaining an OS capable of running on a variety of web-connected devices. A smartphone, though? Hurd says it’s not on [...]
Continue reading...The real reason behind Robbie Bach’s departure?
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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Horace Dediu writes: Bach lost a key account; in fact, he could be responsible for having lost the biggest account that Microsoft ever had. Ballmer is a sales guy and he knows the importance of these relationships. A customer like HP must be managed carefully and their strategy must be steered to fit with yours. If [...]
Continue reading...Rumor: HP working on tablet device codenamed the HP Huricane
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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HP stepped up to the plate a few weeks ago when it acquired Palm for a cool $1.2 billion. The deal not only breathed new life into Palm’s WebOS, but gave HP an actual mobile OS worth talking about. In light of those developments, HP reportedly axed the HP Slate running Windows 7 project that Microsoft CEO [...]
Continue reading...HP buys beleaguered Palm
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Well this is certainly a tech bombshell. It’s no surprise that Palm was looking for a buyer after their efforts to become a player in the smartphone market didn’t go according to plan. But what is surprising is who stepped in to purchase them - Hewelett Packard. In a deal worth $1.2 billion, HP swooped in [...]
Continue reading...Palm waives $99 fee for webOS development
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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Palm just might be starting to realize that, hey, you gotta have apps if you want to compete against the iPhone. To wit, Palm recently waived the $99 fee it formerly required developers to pay if they wanted to get their apps up on Palm’s app store. You know, the one that houses all of [...]
Continue reading...Palm’s Senior VP of software and services prepares to jump ship to Twitter
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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Is this perhaps another nail in the Palm coffin? As part of their recently submitted SEC filing, Palm stated that their senior VP of software and services, Michael Abbot, would be leaving the company. Abbot was reportedly a driving force behind the largely well-received WebOS platform which, while decent in its own right, simply wasn’t [...]
Continue reading...Palm also exploring WebOS licensing and fundraising options
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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Following up on a report that Palm executives are looking to sell the company comes word that it may also be open to licensing its WebOS and/or rallying up a new group of investors. Remember that Palm’s financial situation is pretty fragile at the moment, with some financial analysts predicting that Palm’s share price may [...]
Continue reading...Report: Palm looking to sell
Monday, April 12, 2010
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Bloomberg is reporting that Palm is looking to sell the company: Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, is seeking bids for the company as early as this week, according to three people familiar with the situation. The company is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Frank Quattrone’s Qatalyst Partners to find a buyer, said the [...]
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
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