{"id":569716,"date":"2010-05-18T18:21:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T22:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"16462 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-05-18T18:21:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T22:21:29","slug":"palm-to-employees-business-as-usual-until-the-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569716","title":{"rendered":"Palm to employees: Business as usual until the buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" class=\"lightbox2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Derek%20Kessler\/2010\/04\/thumb_250_hppalm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Palm&#8217;s preliminary proxy statement to the SEC contained all sorts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/hp-beats-out-4-other-companies-order-buy-palm\">juicy details about what happened before the HP + Palm deal was solidified<\/a>. Today they have filed some other details that appear to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/investor.palm.com\/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1193125-10-123448\">Q&amp;A meant for Palm&#8217;s own employees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The questions are all of the sort you might expect employees of a company about to be purchased might ask. The good news is that the majority of the answers are some variation of &quot;Business as usual.&quot; Hiring will continue, relationships with carriers and vendors is to remain unchanged, and they&#8217;re even continuing the summer internship program.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting question was &quot;Did Elevation force a sale?&quot; The answer is a simple &quot;Absolutely not&quot; and a further answer says Palm&#8217;s big recent investor supported the sale. It&#8217;s also interesting that the document not only suggests that CEO Jon Rubinstein will stay on, but that he will &quot;stay on to <em>run the business<\/em> after the transaction&quot; (emphasis ours).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we don&#8217;t have any more details on whether HP will keep the Palm brand (memo to HP: do).<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=cStp1YowNc8:fizYt02CBSo: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=cStp1YowNc8:fizYt02CBSo: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=cStp1YowNc8:fizYt02CBSo:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=cStp1YowNc8:fizYt02CBSo:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=cStp1YowNc8:fizYt02CBSo: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\/cStp1YowNc8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Palm&#8217;s preliminary proxy statement to the SEC contained all sorts of juicy details about what happened before the HP + Palm deal was solidified. Today they have filed some other details that appear to be a Q&amp;A meant for Palm&#8217;s own employees. The questions are all of the sort you might expect employees of a [&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-569716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569716","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=569716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}