Private investment firm greases Palm
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Elevated by cash, iPod guru and former Apple CFO Struggling to regain its edge in the smartphone market, Palm has reached an agreement to sell a quarter of the company to a private equity firm and to place a former iPod guru in an executive seat.â¦
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PalmSource today reported the results of its most recent financial quarter. Revenue was up slightly, but still not enough to make the company profitable.
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Private equity firm Apollo Management LP is planning a two-pronged approach to tap investors without ceding the advantages of being a private company, according to a news report on Tuesday.
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Palm laid off about 10 percent of its work force this week to cut expenses, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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Palm Inc.  said it will sell a 25  percent stake to private equity firm Elevation Partners for  $325 million, and use the proceeds along with the cash on hand  and new debt to pay $9 in cash to stockholders.
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Plus earnings from Bear Stearns, Research In Motion and Palm.
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Palm OS merchant PalmSource is buying mobile phone ISV China MobileSoft (CMS) in a $22.6 million stock deal to tap into the huge Chinese market and the growing popularity of Linux.
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - As venture capitalists shift their focus to later-stage deals with more mature technology companies, a growing and increasingly organized class of private investors known as "angels" has been picking up the slack in funding smaller start-ups.
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The business development company makes a rare share repurchase.
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No new PDAs likely - Colligan Palm reported revenue of $355.8m for the quarter ending 1 September, with a slim net income of $16.5m. Measured on a non-GAAP basis, the profit was $21.5m.â¦
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By John Markoff  Fifteen years after pioneering personal computers that nestled comfortably in a user's hand, Palm has announced plans to sell a two- handed laptop-size machine called the Foleo.
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Private investment firm Carlyle Group, which has a reputation for making well-timed and occasionally controversial plays in the defense industry, has quietly placed its bets on another part of the market.
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How to buy back PalmSource without buying back PalmSource Palm has effectively committed itself to producing handheld devices based on the Palm OS - which it no longer owns - by agreeing to pay $44m for a perpetual licence for the source code underlying the Garnet incarnation of the operating system. The move is tantamount to Palm re-acquiring PalmSource.â¦
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Palm stockholders have approved a 25 percent equity stake investment from Elevation Partners, a venture capital firm led by former Apple CFO Fred Anderson.
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Palm used to dominate the market with the best gadget. What went wrong? Mike Elgan gives his views.
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Recent reports that Nokia is in talks to buy Palm surprise some analysts, who nonetheless said some type of buyout might make sense.
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Nathaniel Rothschild has parlayed his familyâs name and private equity investments into a fortune that is approaching $1 billion.