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Rubinstein to lead Palm unit, HP deal to close first week of July
Today, Palm held their Shareholder meeting to approve the pending 'merger' with HP. Jakerome in our forums went there this morning and offers the following notes based on a conversation with Teri...
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Palm Stockholders approve HP buyout, expected to close July 1st
Palm has just filed an 8-K report with the SEC:At a special stockholder meeting held June 25, 2010, the stockholders of Palm, Inc. (“Palm”) approved the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated April 28,...
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Palm's VP of PR, Lynn Fox, Leaves Palm
TechCrunch is reporting that Lynn Fox, Vice President of Public Relations for Palm, left the company earlier this week. Fox's Facebook page pretty much confirms the same:I respectfully declined the...
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Jeff Finkelstein, Sr Product Manager of Multimedia, Leaves Palm
Here's another name to add to the growing list in of Palm employees heading out, pre-acquisition: Jeff Finkelstein, Sr Product Manager of Multimedia. Finkelstien, whose awarded patents while at Palm...
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HP welcomes Palm employees, community
HP's Phil McKinney has written a welcome letter to the Palms employees who are now HP employees:Today, we’re excited to welcome the Palm team and its community of customers, developers and...
View ArticleHP CTO Phil McKinney sits down with Ben and Dion
We already noted HP CTO Phil McKinney's welcome to the webOS community, but as promised McKinney has updated the post with a link to the above discussion with two guys that Palm fans know well, Ben...
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Apple, RIM, Google all looked at purchasing Palm
HP won the bidding war, but Business Insider is filling out the details of from that intriguing SEC filing that suggested plenty of players were interested in purchasing the company. The named...
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HP, it's time to get down to business [Point Counter-Point]
Welcome to Point Counter Point, wherein Derek vents his spleen like the dour misanthrope we've all come to know and love, Dieter consoles us all with rainbows and unicorns, and the truth lies - as it...
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2010: The year in review
2010 was quite the year for the Palm faithful. Things may not have gone the way we’d hoped at the start of the year, but by and large it was an interesting ride. A lot happened in the past year, and...
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McKinney: HP was supposed to leave Palm alone for three years, lacked the...
Phil McKinney left his position as HP CTO and chief big thinker at the end of this past October. Since then he published a new book, Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-Changing...
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Oracle considered purchasing Palm to jump into the smartphone business
April 2010 brought the surprise announcement that HP was purchasing Palm for $1.2 billion. It wasn't a surprised that Palm was for sale or that they had found somebody to buy them up, the surprise was...
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Read This: In depth on the rise and fall of webOS
The tl;dr version: webOS got screwed, time and time again. Sometimes by Palm's own ambitions, sometimes by supposed partners, and sometimes by fate. The Verge's Chris Zeigler has put together an...
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The 800x480 "Chile" device found in Open webOS? Meet 2010's ViewSonic ViewPad 7
While digging through the code released with Open webOS, some have noted that there's at least one device codename listed that we didn't know about to this point: "Chile". It's not a device we've heard...
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One year ago, HP cancelled webOS hardware and everything changed
August 17, 2011 was a weird day. The day prior the HP Pre3 became available in the UK with nary an announcement to herald its arrival. The 17th saw the surprise release of the white 64GB TouchPad in...
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The Palm Timeline
Palm Computing > US Robotics > 3Com > HandSpring > Palm > palmOne > Palm > HP> LGTo say it's been a long and winding road for Palm and webOS would be an understatment. In the...
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Jon Rubinstein: Validated, but Palm sale to HP was "a waste"
Given the chance to do things over again, former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein would not have sold the company to HP. When asked by FierceWireless about whether he would have done anything differently,...
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Palm Stockholders approve HP buyout, expected to close July 1st
Palm has just filed an 8-K report with the SEC:At a special stockholder meeting held June 25, 2010, the stockholders of Palm, Inc. (“Palm”) approved the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated April 28,...
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Palm's VP of PR, Lynn Fox, Leaves Palm
TechCrunch is reporting that Lynn Fox, Vice President of Public Relations for Palm, left the company earlier this week. Fox's Facebook page pretty much confirms the same:I respectfully declined the...
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Jeff Finkelstein, Sr Product Manager of Multimedia, Leaves Palm
Here's another name to add to the growing list in of Palm employees heading out, pre-acquisition: Jeff Finkelstein, Sr Product Manager of Multimedia. Finkelstien, whose awarded patents while at Palm...
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HP welcomes Palm employees, community
HP's Phil McKinney has written a welcome letter to the Palms employees who are now HP employees:Today, we’re excited to welcome the Palm team and its community of customers, developers and...
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