Palm Pre Helps Palm Inc Raise More Funds

Steven Finch — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:00:11 +0000

Palm actually wants to get back into the smartphone race. Today the shares of Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) rose about 15%. The company increased the size of their secondary offering and raised $83.9 million as part of the process. The company sold 23.13 million shares as part of the secondary offering taking place between now and March 31.

Palm was initially expecting to sell 18.5 million shares being held by investor Elevation Partners. Palm added the extra 4.63 million shares at a price of $6 per share. Through the offering, Elevation Partners made about $49 million. Palm plans to use the capital raised to push the hype of the Pre in the smartphone market.

So far the Pre is looking great but is this one product really going to put Palm back on the map?

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Guest — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:42 +0000

By: Luis Sandoval

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Palm Pre Helps Palm Inc Raise More Funds

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