{"id":526011,"date":"2010-04-13T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"15748 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-04-13T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:30:15","slug":"buyout-a-go-go-huawei-lenovo-no-comment-from-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526011","title":{"rendered":"Buyout a go-go: Huawei, Lenovo, no comment from CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yeah, we know that CEO Jon Rubinstein giving an official "No Comment" isn’t normally worth a post, but given how many<\/a> buyout<\/a> rumors<\/a> have<\/a> been swirling<\/a> around, at this point any statement is news. So in the interest of full disclosure, he told zeit.de<\/a> "We cannot comment on rumors. […] We focus our efforts on building smartphones that put our customers like." So there you go.<\/p>\n

In other Rubinstein news, it sounds like he’s heading to France<\/a> on April 27th for that SFR Palm Pre premiere party<\/a>, so we’re feeling pretty good about an immediate launch. The fact that Vodafone and O2 Germany are getting plussed<\/a> on the 28th doesn’t hurt, either.<\/p>\n

Rumor time: Doug Kass of The Street<\/a> claims (in a subscription-required article) that a ‘Gnome’ told him that Lenovo has walked away from a deal with Palm. Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting<\/a> that Palm went looking to Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE for a possible purchase:<\/p>\n

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Huawei was approached through its investment bank sometime in mid-February for "preliminary discussions", the source told Reuters on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the process has not been made public<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Round and round we go. Anybody getting dizzy yet?<\/p>\n

 Thanks to everybody (and we mean everybody) who sent this all in!<\/em><\/p>\n

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