Comments on: Palm Shares Rise on Wall Street Rumors

I think Palm can only appeal to:

- A tech company which is totally and utterly clueless about mobiles, maybe Google but if Apple can do it without help, why not Google? Besides, Google can always chat with the friendly people at HTC.

- some brave (foolhardy?) private equity or investment consortium who feel they can do a better job managing Palm than Palm.

- an Asian mobile company who need a quick foot into the door of the North American market; as if China, India, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia etc aren't large enough!

- an Asian mobile company who need a quick foot into the door of the North American market; as if China, India, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia etc aren't large enough!

My sources tell me that it's ACCESS.

(There you go Kris, it was a six letter name after all.)


Thinking about Vista? Think again: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

Any company big enough to buy PALM could easily contract with HTC or Inventec or Solectron or whomever themselves.

Today is options expiration day (the day options make money or lose their value); think that could have anything to do with yesterday's rumor?...

Whatta racket!

Nevertheless, if I were the Palm goldfish swimming among the MotoSamsuNokiSony sharks, I would take any suitor I could.

Pat Horne

I don't know where / what Palm will be in a long time. But, I think this is an absolute ... Palm aint gonna stay anything for very long. Their corporate history in a decade makes ATT look like child's play.

Pat Horne

== "...I'm author of article that boosted PALM by 800 bps in 3 days..."

-- http://tinyurl.com/3x8cpo

and, in general:

-- http://tinyurl.com/yst8rb

Say, Ryan, are you SURE you want to link to that SeekingAlpha article?

Whatta racket!

Provide proof that Fidelity, Oppenheimer, Nelson or Sagio "recently dumped PALM."

Thank you.

hengeem

Provide proof that Fidelity, Oppenheimer, Nelson or Sagio "recently dumped PALM."

Thank you.

hengeem

My request was not directed to you. My request was directed to SeldomVisitor.

In addition, your link does not provide proof that Fidelity, Oppenheimer, Nelson or Sagio "recently dumped PALM."

SeldomVisitor has provided no proof.

hengeem

Not me, though.

Just a nut who can't stand blaming the guy in the mirror for his "investing" mistakes.

Be Careful Out There!

[to chia - I purposefully had not answered because it was simply a stupid naive taunt by the Obsessed Fan who apparently REALLY doesn't know how to find out this kind of information (great investing technique, eh!? HA HA HA!) - but thanks anyway!]

I'll be very surprised if any mobile company buys Palm. The only thing Palm has to offer them is the Treo trademark and I doubt it can generate $1 billion worth of revenue, ie Palm's current market capitalization and therefore minimum purchase price. It may still be worthwhile if it opens the door to the North American market; the fact that Palm itself is in the process of trying to widen its marketshare beyond North America implies that North America may not be all that lucrative after all.

To the moon, Alice!

No Blackberry Pearl for you! (among a cast of thousands of other smartphones like HP's)

"How to Lie with Statistics" - great book - mandatory read.

Sheesh