{"id":5173,"date":"2010-04-12T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:42:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:42:57","slug":"palm-shopping-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/12\/palm-shopping-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm shopping itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5175\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/Palm-Pre-150x150.png\" alt=\"Palm Pre\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>PDA pioneer Palm, creator of the Pre smartphone, <a title=\"reportedly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aRwY1eX_PEXw&amp;pos=7#\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> is shopping itself and has hired Goldman Sachs to help find a buyer.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, head of the Information Systems Department, says a sale\u00a0was inevitable as Palm has not been able to gain much traction with it&#8217;s Pre beyond a small group of core followers.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It may well be that Palm does not get a premium and that an acquisition may be attractive for the talent but not for hardware or software.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDA pioneer Palm, creator of the Pre smartphone, reportedly is shopping itself and has hired Goldman Sachs to help find a buyer.\u00a0 School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, head of the Information Systems Department, says a sale\u00a0was inevitable as Palm has not been able to gain much traction with it&#8217;s Pre beyond a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2654,2652,2653,2655,1346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5801,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}