Palm shares plunged Friday after the struggling US mobile device maker posted more disappointing results and speculation mounted that it could be an acquisition target. Shares in the Sunnyvale, California-based company were trading 18.94 percent lower at mid-day at 4.58 dollars. Bank of America analysts painted a gloomy future Friday for the handset maker, which has been ...

Palm Inc. reported disappointing sales of its smart phones, which it revamped with a brand new operating system last year. CEO Jon Rubinstein, who came to Pal from Apple Inc., where he spent a decade and was an important figure behind the brightly colored iMac computers ...

Google has been denied a trademark application for its Nexus One smartphone after the US Patent and Trademark Office said the name had been taken by a related product, a report said. The ruling issued last week said Google's application was denied for the "likelihood of confusion" with a Nexus trademark held since 2008 by an Oregon-based telecommunications ...

Jerome York, an Apple Inc. board member and a financial wizard credited with turning around Chrysler and IBM, died Thursday of a brain aneurysm. He was 71. He died at a Pontiac, Mich., hospital after being taken there on Tuesday night. York, who led an investigation of ...