Palm, Inc. was an American company that specialized in manufacturing personal digital assistants and developing software. Palm designed the PalmPilot, the first PDA successfully marketed worldwide, and was known for the Treo 600, one of the earlier successful smartphones. It developed the Palm OS software for PDAs and smartphones, released under its line of Palm-branded devices and also licensed to other PDA manufacturers. The company was also responsible for the first versions of webOS, the first multitasking operating system for smartphones. In July 2010 Palm was purchased by Hewlett-Packard.
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Founded By: Jeff Hawkins, Article body: founded-by
Palm Computing, Inc., was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins, who later hired Donna Dubinsky and Ed Colligan, all of whom guided Palm to the invention of Palm Pilot.
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Palm, Inc., was an American company that specialized in manufacturing personal digital assistants (PDAs) and developing software.
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