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Oracle considered purchasing Palm or RIM to jump into the smartphone business
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Oracle considered purchasing Palm to jump into the smartphone business
by Derek Kessler
Apr 17, 2012
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...
Phil McKinney
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McKinney: HP was supposed to leave Palm alone for three years, lacked the "patience for innovation"
by Derek Kessler
Mar 13, 2012
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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2010: The year in review
by Derek Kessler
Dec 31, 2010
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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HP, it's time to get down to business [Point Counter-Point]
by Derek Kessler
Aug 09, 2010
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 -...
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Apple, RIM, Google all looked at purchasing Palm
by Dieter Bohn
Jul 15, 2010
  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 CTO Phil McKinney sits down with Ben and Dion
by Dieter Bohn
Jul 01, 2010
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,...
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HP welcomes Palm employees, community
by Dieter Bohn
Jul 01, 2010
  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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Jeff Finkelstein, Sr Product Manager of Multimedia, Leaves Palm
by Robert Werlinger
Jun 29, 2010
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...
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Palm's VP of PR, Lynn Fox, Leaves Palm
by Dieter Bohn
Jun 25, 2010
  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...
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Palm Stockholders approve HP buyout, expected to close July 1st
by Dieter Bohn
Jun 25, 2010
  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...