Jon Rubinstein leaves HP

Jon Rubinstein leaves HP
In April 2010, HP announced it was purchasing the struggling smartphone maker Palm for $1.2 billion, after at least four other companies gave serious bids.

Palm had put itself up for sale that March after it became clear that the company's phones were not selling and it only had enough cash to last the next 12 months.



With the acquisition, former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein came on board as high-ranking executive at HP, with a commitment to stay 12-24 months.

After a rough year at HP, in which the company discontinued all of its webOS hardware projects and then turned the software open-source after unsuccessfully trying to sell it, Rubinstein has left. Says HP: "Jon has fulfilled his commitment to HP. We wish him well."

A spokesperson for Rubinstein says the exec is "going to take a well deserved break after four and a half years of developing webOS."

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 28 Jan 2012 12:50
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  • 3 comments
  • blueboy09

    Once he found out that WebOS (Palm) was a dud, he got the hell outta there, and I don't blame him for leaving either.

    Chance prepares the favored mind. Look up once in a while and you might learn something. - BLUEBOY

    29.1.2012 19:33 #1

  • hearme0

    Will be interesting to see how well the company does with the edited by ddp gone.

    30.1.2012 14:39 #2

  • ddp

    hearme0, do that again & it will be a permanent ban, post edited.

    30.1.2012 23:44 #3

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