Azul Real schrieb am 12.01.2009, 09:40 Uhr[/url]"]Ach du shice .....
Palm seit dem 23.12. noch mal
+115% hoch auf 6,58 Dollar (TH)
Was ist da los .....
SK 09.01.2008
5,96 +33,93% TH 6,58
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Reuters
Palm's new phone and operating system ignite shares
Thursday January 8, 8:25 pm ET
By Franklin Paul and Sinead Carew
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -
Palm Inc (NasdaqGS:PALM - News) overhauled its mobile operating system and introduced a new touch-screen phone, sending its shares soaring 35 percent as investors hoped the moves can help win back customers from rivals such as Apple Inc (NasdaqGS:AAPL - News).
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The new products, which impressed analysts at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday, were developed under the watch of former Apple executive Jon Rubenstein, who helped create the iPod and who was brought to Palm by its private equity shareholder, Elevation Partners.
Palm has staked its future on the Palm Web OS operating system and the new phone, which it has been developing since 2007. The pioneer of touch-screen phones like the Treo had been steadily losing market share to Apple's iPhone, Research in Motion Ltd's (Toronto:RIM.TO - News) BlackBerry and other devices.
"This is sort of a rebirth of our company," Brodie Keast, Palm's senior vice president of marketing, told Reuters. "It means a lot to us."
Palm's new Pre smartphone has GPS location technology, Wi-Fi wireless connectivity and a slide out full keyboard. It will be available exclusively on the network of Sprint Nextel Corp (NYSE:S - News) in the first half of 2009. Palm would not disclose a price.
In a demonstration at CES, Palm executives showed how the Pre phone easily consolidates multiple communication services such as instant messaging, text messaging and social networks such as Facebook, and multiple email systems.
"Everything about it looks competitive. The device's specifications tick all the right boxes. What we've seen of the software and user experience in demonstrations appears innovative and unique," said CCS Insight analyst John Jackson.
Palm shares closed up $1.15, or 34.85 percent, at $4.45 on the long-awaited announcements, and JPMorgan analyst Paul Coster speculated that the new operating system may make Palm an attractive takeover target. Palm itself got into the smartphone business by buying rival Handspring Inc.
"I liked the operating system a lot," said Coster. "If they don't execute, somebody's going to buy them."
He added that a buyer would save the years of work it would have to spend developing such a system, saying, "Anybody (in the cell phone market) who's not developing an operating system has to be interested."
In June 2007, Elevation Partners bought a 25 percent stake in Palm for $325 million and brought in Rubenstein. Since then, investors had been waiting for Palm to put the finishing touches on the new mobile platform.
Palm came in third behind RIM and Apple in the North American smartphone market in the third quarter, according to Gartner analyst Hugues de la Vergne.
"Palm bet the company on this so they had to come through and they did," said JPMorgan analyst Ehud Gelblum.
He added, however, that the exclusivity deal with Sprint could limit sales. The No. 3 U.S. mobile phone carrier has been struggling to stem subscriber losses, trailing behind Verizon Wireless Inc (NYSE:VZ - News; LSE:VOD.L - News) and AT&T Inc (NYSE:T - News).
"The only drawback is how long is it going to be on sale only with Sprint? It's a smaller addressable market than they otherwise would have had," said Gelblum.
Sprint Chief Executive Dan Hesse told Reuters after the launch that the Pre is "very important for Sprint" but he declined to give sales estimates or more details.
Sprint shares rose over 8 percent, helped by the Palm contract and Hesse's comments that the economic downturn had a limited impact on the company in the fourth quarter.
At CES, Palm -- which also sells the Centro, a relatively low-end smartphone -- also showed the Touchstone, a small round cosmetics jar-sized inductive charging dock that powers the Pre phone simply by placing the handheld on the dock.
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Azul Real schrieb am 23.12.2008, 08:32 Uhr[/url]"]Vor einiger Zeit noch das Nonplusultra der Handhelds
PALM.
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Palm shares rise on additional investment
Analysts cheer move, though some voice concerns about dilution
Last update: 4:18 p.m. EST Dec. 22, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO Shares of Palm Inc. got a shot in the arm Monday as the company secured additional capital investment from a private-equity firm.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Palm 3.05, +0.56, +22.5%) saw its stock gain 22.5% to close at $3.05 after the struggling handset maker announced
that it will receive an additional $100 million equity investment from Elevation Partners.
Under terms of the deal, Elevation will acquire newly issued Series C preferred stock convertible into Palm common stock at a price of $3.25 a share and also will get warrants to acquire 7 million Palm shares at the same price.
Before March 31, Palm could cause Elevation to sell up to $49 million of this new investment to other investors at the same or better terms. The transaction is expected to close by Jan. 31.
In a statement, Palm Chief Executive Ed Colligan said the additional capital "will enable us to put added momentum behind the new-product introductions scheduled for 2009 and will provide us with enhanced stability in unsettled economic times."
Last week, Palm posted lower-than-expected financial results, and some analysts raised questions about the company's ability to bounce back.
Tavis McCourt of Morgan Keegan told clients Monday that the investment is "clearly positive for common shareholders considering it should take any liquidity concerns off the table for Palm in 2009."
But Peter Misek of Canaccord Adams said in a report that the new investment could be extremely dilutive to existing shareholders. He also pointed out that the company had recently expressed confidence in its cash base.
"On the conference call last week, the company noted its belief that the remaining cash position is sufficient to navigate through a turbulent economic period in advance of launching new products and its new OS platform," Misek wrote. "We believe the proposed financing may foreshadow a material cash burn over the next few quarters." Benjamin Pimentel is a MarketWatch reporter based in San Francisco.
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