{"id":363784,"date":"2010-02-25T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/0310741cacffbbc99421af865fd03e9b"},"modified":"2010-02-25T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:40:00","slug":"article-palm-updates-investor-guidance-for-q3-2010-and-it-doesnt-look-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/363784","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Palm updates investor guidance for Q3 2010, and it doesn&#8217;t look good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/2\/94901-Palm_HQ.jpg\" alt=\"Palm HQ\" width=\"453\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ruh roh.&nbsp; A day after analysts downgraded the company&#8217;s stock due to less-than-spectacular sales at Verizon, Palm has released its earnings report &#8211; and suffice to say, things aren&#8217;t looking good.&nbsp; In an update to its third quarter financial guidance, Palm said that customer adoption of its devices is &#8220;taking longer than expected,&#8221; and order volumes are being lowered and pushed back to &#8220;future periods.&#8221;&nbsp; In a statement, Palm said the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;Palm expects fiscal year 2010 revenues to be well below its  previously forecasted range of $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion. The company  will provide more detail on its financial results during Palm&#8217;s  third-quarter financial results conference call currently scheduled for  Thursday, March 18.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The company remains committed to driving the Palm brand to consumers,  with CEO Jon Rubinstein commenting that &#8220;our carrier partners remain  committed, and we are working closely with  them to increase awareness  and drive sales of our differentiated Palm  products.&#8221;&nbsp; Though a rumor was making its way around the internet yesterday regarding Verizon Wireless dropping the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus from its lineup, it was quickly debunked.&nbsp; Company spokeswoman Brenda Raney told <em>PreCentral<\/em> that &#8220;Palm devices are an important part of our portfolio as more and more people enjoy both the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus on the nation&#8217;s most reliable network.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frustrating news for Palm, and for shareholders, as the company&#8217;s stock has dropped 30 percent this week.&nbsp; For those that own Palm devices, are you concerned about the future of the organization?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/palm-updates-stock-guidance-amid-stock-volatility-and-slow-sales\" >PreCentral<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/home\/permalink\/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20100225005821&amp;newsLang=en\" >BusinessWire<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZiVdR83vnDOLerkD_KVYc7iBuC0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZiVdR83vnDOLerkD_KVYc7iBuC0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZiVdR83vnDOLerkD_KVYc7iBuC0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZiVdR83vnDOLerkD_KVYc7iBuC0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/YCAAUiXBwDA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruh roh.&nbsp; A day after analysts downgraded the company&#8217;s stock due to less-than-spectacular sales at Verizon, Palm has released its earnings report &#8211; and suffice to say, things aren&#8217;t looking good.&nbsp; In an update to its third quarter financial guidance, Palm said that customer adoption of its devices is &#8220;taking longer than expected,&#8221; and order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}