{"id":726350,"date":"2010-04-29T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:32:38","slug":"palms-ceo-jon-rubinstein-letter-to-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/726350","title":{"rendered":"Palm’s CEO Jon Rubinstein Letter To The Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So you think the Palm (NSDQ: PALM<\/a>) sale was a last-ditch effort to keep the company and its products alive? That’s not how CEO Jon Rubinstein phrases it—rather, it’s a successful end to an entrepreneur’s story. The Wall Street Journal<\/em> obtained the letter<\/a> Rubinstein sent to employees on Wednesday, following the $1.2 billion sale of Palm to HP (NYSE: HPQ<\/a>). Here’s the gist of it:<\/p>\n

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“In a very short period of time, we\u2019ve amassed a world-class team, brought webOS to market with widespread acclaim, launched four new devices and launched in eight countries. In short, we have delivered on our original plan.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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So you think the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) sale was a last-ditch effort to keep the company and its products alive? That’s not how CEO Jon Rubinstein phrases it—rather, it’s a successful end to an entrepreneur’s story. The Wall Street Journal obtained the letter Rubinstein sent to employees on Wednesday, following the $1.2 billion sale of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1729,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32Xk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827970,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726350\/revisions\/827970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}