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The company behind the famous Palm Pilot, Palm was founded by Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky and Ed Colligan in 1992. US Robotics acquired Palm in 1995, which eventually being acquired by 3Com in 1997. On March 1, 2000, 3Com made Palm as an independent publicly traded company. Despite being famous of handheld PDA innovations, Palm has announced that it will stop making PDA and focus on the smartphones market PalmInfocenter.com: Colligan: No New Palm Handhelds. Palm Pre is the first groundbreaking product after several years of hiatus.
On October 30, 2009, Phoronix reports that Matthew Tippett who was Linux Core Engineering manager at AMD will be joining Palm. His new role is the new head of Linux kernel development. [1]
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Fast Facts
- Stock symbol: PALM (NASDAQ)
- Annual revenue (Q4 2009): $86.8 million http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9845/...
- Founder: Jeff Hawkins
- Year established: 1992
- Industry: Computer hardware/software
- Phone: 408-617-7000
- Fax: 408-617-0100
- HQ: Sunnyvale, California http://www.palm.com/us/company/managemen...
- President/CEO: Jon Rubinstein (appointed June 10, 2009) http://investor.palm.com/releasedetail.c...
- Senior VP, Application Software and Services: Michael Abbott
- Employees: 1,103 (Nov. '06)
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Palm Pre
The Palm Pre was debuted in January 2009 at the CES 2009 convention. The device supports EVDO rev.A, WiFi and bluetooth. It also features a removeable battery, micro USB and USB mass storage support. In addition it also has an area on screen for navigation and a 3.5mm headphone jack.Gizmodo: Live: Palm Keynote (January 8, 2009) -
Key Dates
- 1992: Jeff Hawkins founds Palm Computing, Inc. and, with help from Donna Dubinsky and Ed Colligan, invents their first PDA, the Palm Pilot
- 1995: Acquired by U.S. Robotics Corp.
- 1997: U.S. Robotics Corp. acquired by 3Com, making Palm, Inc. a subsidiary
- June, 1998: Original creators become unhappy with 3Com's business direction and leave to form Handspring
- March 1, 2000: 3Com files and IPO for Palm, Inc., and stock prices hit the company record, $95.60, on its first day of trading
- June, 2001: Stock prices reach $6.50 per share
- January, 2002: Develops wholly-owned subsidiary company, PalmSource, to develop and license Palm OS
- August 2003: Hardware division merges with Handspring and renamed to palmOne, Inc.
- April 2005: palmOne purchases PalmSource's share of the Palm trademark for $30 million
- July 2005: palmOne reverts back to Palm, Inc.
- January 2009: Palm introduces new smartphone, Palm Pre, at Consumer Electronics Show
- June 2009: Jon Rubinstein promoted to Palm CEO replacing Ed Colligan.
- September 9, 2009: Palm introduces Palm Pixi.
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Mr. Picower, 67 years old, drowned last month in a pool at his Palm Beach, Fla., residence. He had been suffering from Parkinson's disease, ...Wall Street Journal (November 10, 2009)
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