{"id":519770,"date":"2010-04-07T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"15643 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:47:57","slug":"palm-takeover-chatter-swirling-again-this-time-its-rim-update-mainly-lenovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519770","title":{"rendered":"Palm takeover &#8216;chatter&#8217; swirling again, this time it&#8217;s RIM (Update: Mainly Lenovo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"338\" class=\"lightbox2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Dieter%20Bohn\/2010\/04\/keep-calm.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A bunch of readers have let us know that Palm&#8217;s stock is jumping up right now &#8211; as of this writing it&#8217;s up 15% over yesterday&#8217;s close.<\/p>\n<p>The reason? More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=aOyTGOhcoeio\">takeover chatter<\/a>&nbsp;which appears to stem from a report from Next Inning Technology Research, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/ni-technology-updates-outlooks-for-research-in-motion-palm-cavium-networks-qlogic-and-silicon-laboratories-2010-04-07?reflink=MW_news_stmp\">put out a newsletter<\/a> suggesting that RIM would be a good candidate to acquire Palm.<\/p>\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\" \/><b>Update:&nbsp;<\/b>as Phantom_Pain notes in the comments, the&nbsp;<em>bigger<\/em>&nbsp;rumor might be&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/36220964?__source=yahoo%7cheadline%7cquote%7ctext%7c&amp;par=yahoo\">Lenovo<\/a>. You may recall that they purchased the ThinkPad Laptop division from IBM and did a pretty good job with it after the acquisition. Lenovo could potentially be more interesting than the earlier contenders &#8211; but then again they are also&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/lenovo-lephone-set-release-may-china\">looking fairly focused on Android<\/a>&nbsp;right now.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we&#8217;re still down on the RIM prospect, original reasons why after the break.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/palm-takeover-chatter-swirling-again-time-its-rim\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=qGFiJh-4XPw:fH6QkLPu6EM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=qGFiJh-4XPw:fH6QkLPu6EM:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=qGFiJh-4XPw:fH6QkLPu6EM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=qGFiJh-4XPw:fH6QkLPu6EM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=qGFiJh-4XPw:fH6QkLPu6EM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/qGFiJh-4XPw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of readers have let us know that Palm&#8217;s stock is jumping up right now &#8211; as of this writing it&#8217;s up 15% over yesterday&#8217;s close. The reason? More takeover chatter&nbsp;which appears to stem from a report from Next Inning Technology Research, who put out a newsletter suggesting that RIM would be a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519770","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}