When Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) stunned the consumer electronics and mobile market back in April by announcing that it would buy handheld device pioneer Palm for $1.5 billion, many jumped in to say that HP was just playing catch-up to Dell (DELL), which has its own mobile device strategy, and various hardware and mobile PC makers. After all, HP lacked a cohesive mobile and tablet computer product line and strategy -- two areas that are red-hot in the consumer sector. Was this a smart move for HP?

Continue reading Hewlett-Packard Committed to Scaling Palm Purchase: Enter Google

Hewlett-Packard Committed to Scaling Palm Purchase: Enter Google originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 12 May 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

After reading this breakdown of Palm's (PALM) lethal combination of mistakes in the last year, one would wonder where the company is headed (except into the ground). Without following some sound advice from non-CEOs, the company -- which at one point was the premier smartphone company -- may be headed to shutterville faster than 2012. If the company is even worth anything by then, nobody will want to acquire it and investors in it will lose everything. That is, unless a product launch on AT&T (T) can save the company.

Continue reading Palm's Last Stand: Its Products Come to AT&T

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Continue reading Palm's Q3 loss widens; all hope now rests on the Pre

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