{"id":542431,"date":"2010-04-23T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/04\/23\/rumor-palm-ceo-jon-rubinstein-out\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T22:50:00","slug":"rumor-palm-ceo-jon-rubinstein-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542431","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/4\/100643-548647689_h6E7q-L.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Rubinstein\" width=\"399\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I like Palm (and love webOS) &#8211; but at this point, any rumor could be made about the troubled company and people would say &#8220;yep, that sounds about right.&#8221;&nbsp; Keep that in mind as you read on, but according to &#8220;industry sources&#8221; reporting to <em>TechCrunch<\/em>, Palm may be getting ready to ditch CEO Jon Rubinstein as part of a management shakeup.&nbsp; As it stands, the company is experiencing challenges in selling inventory, and is having trouble keeping up with the marketshare of the industry giants &#8211; Apple, Android, BlackBerry, and Nokia.&nbsp; Despite the revolutionary webOS user interface, the company has experienced challenges since the launch in June of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Originally at Apple, Rubinstein was recruited by Palm investor Elevation Partners in 2007, and was tapped to replace departing CEO Ed Colligan in January 2009.&nbsp; <em>TechCrunch<\/em> has reached out to Palm for additional comment, but hasn&#8217;t heard anything as of yet.&nbsp; What say you &#8211; is Rubinstein the man for the job, or is it time for new blood?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/04\/23\/palm-shake-up\/\" >TechCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IaTAOc4zfm9v_X8AkJqtbS9gA4Q\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IaTAOc4zfm9v_X8AkJqtbS9gA4Q\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IaTAOc4zfm9v_X8AkJqtbS9gA4Q\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IaTAOc4zfm9v_X8AkJqtbS9gA4Q\/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\/mZFoZ29BKps\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I like Palm (and love webOS) &#8211; but at this point, any rumor could be made about the troubled company and people would say &#8220;yep, that sounds about right.&#8221;&nbsp; Keep that in mind as you read on, but according to &#8220;industry sources&#8221; reporting to TechCrunch, Palm may be getting ready to [&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-542431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542431","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=542431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}