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Ed Colligan 
27 posts and columns on Ed Colligan
Jon Rubinstein Joins Board of Qualcomm, as Mobile Chipmaker Ups Its Silicon Valley Cred
The longtime mobile exec is a high-profile appointment.
Nice Company You’ve Got There. Shame If Something Happened to It.
I’m sure you realize the asymmetry in the financial resources of our respective companies.
– In a 2007 email, Steve Jobs asks former Palm CEO Ed Colligan to stop recruiting Apple employees
Federal Judge Forces Apple, Google, Others to Face Antitrust Suit
A federal judge says there’s enough information that six tech companies had “do-not-cold-call” agreements between them that they have to face an antitrust suite from five software engineers.
Worry About an Apple Television? Don’t Make Samsung Laugh.
Evidently the geeks in Apple’s secret design labs are no match for Samsung’s R&D army.
Palm Handsets Priced to Pwn
Remarking on slowing sales of the Pre in August 2009, Pali Research analyst Walter Piecyk suggested that Palm and Sprint, its sole carrier partner at the time, would be wise to drop the price of the device to 99 cents and put it in the hands of as many customers as possible before it lost the little differentiated advantage it had. Piecyk’s advice went unheeded–until the past few weeks.
Yep, Palm’s Coming to Verizon, With a Couple of New Phones
As expected, Palm announced today that its smartphones–two new variations on the Pre and the Pixi, actually–will be available on Verizon Wireless soon. Also coming: Some software updates, including a nifty one that will give existing handsets the ability to record video.
Apple: How Do You Say “Eat My Dust” in Finnish?
At 37.9 percent, Nokia’s share of the global handset market is the largest in the industry. Odd then to learn that it is not the most profitable. And odder still to learn that that honor belongs to Apple, which has been in the handset market for just two years.
Apple CEO to Palm: I’ll Quit Sniffing Your Org Chart if You Quit Sniffing Mine
Apple appears to have a particular affinity for the unwritten no-poaching agreements said to be so popular among the nation’s biggest tech companies. Earlier this summer, the New York Times reported that Apple may have quietly negotiated an agreement with Google not to hire away each other’s top talent. Now, Bloomberg claims that the company attempted to win a similar commitment from Palm, but was rebuffed.
Apple CEO to Palm: I'll Quit Sniffing Your Org Chart if You Quit Sniffing Mine
Apple appears to have a particular affinity for the unwritten no-poaching agreements said to be so popular among the nation’s biggest tech companies. Earlier this summer, the New York Times reported that Apple may have quietly negotiated an agreement with Google not to hire away each other’s top talent. Now, Bloomberg claims that the company attempted to win a similar commitment from Palm, but was rebuffed.
Palm's New Pilot: Jon Rubinstein [UPDATED]
Now we know why it was Palm executive chairman Jon Rubinstein and investor Roger McNamee on stage at the D conference last month talking up the Pre, and not CEO Ed Colligan: Colligan was on his way out. On Wednesday, Palm tapped Rubinstein as its new CEO.