3 posts and columns on Donna Dubinsky

FacePalm: HP Loses VP of Product Management for webOS to Numenta

in News on April 4, 2011 at 12:24 pm PT

The brain drain at Hewlett-Packard’s Palm unit continues with another departure. This one is particularly high profile, though it seems to have gone unnoticed. Joe Hayashi, VP of product management for webOS, left the company in March for the VP of marketing gig at Numenta.

Oh, Donna

in News on February 4, 2009 at 10:44 am PT

With Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky founded Palm in 1992 and went on to become its CEO. She was part of the brains behind the Palm Pilot–the standard-setting personal digital assistant–upon which Palm built its business. Dubinksy has a long and storied history at Palm and one that will soon end. According to a recent SEC filing, she will soon resign from the company’s board of directors.

Silicon Valley Leaders Say No to Proposition 8 With New Group and Ad

in News on October 30, 2008 at 9:19 am PT

Today, a panoply of prominent tech and Internet leaders is taking a very public stand against a controversial initiative before California voters, which would eliminate the current legal right of same-sex couples to marry. Silicon Valley has had a long history of supporting gay rights. And recently, Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin has made a strong statement opposing Proposition 8, while Apple gave $100,000 to the help defeat it.