HP bought Palm, an early pioneer in handheld devices, to tap into the fast-growing smartphone industry and get access to Palm's acclaimed webOS operating system.

惠普收购掌上电脑的先驱palm，并进军快速增长的智能手机行业，还获得了Palm有名的webOS操作系统。

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In April, HP agreed to buy Palm, maker of the nifty WebOS mobile operating system and abruptly stopped talking about its still unreleased Windows tablet.

今年四月，惠普同意收购尖端的网络移动操作系统的制造商Palm，并突然停止谈论仍仍未发行的Windows平板。

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HP said Wednesday it plans to acquire Palm for $1.2 billion , or $5.70 per share, which amounts to a 23 percent premium over Palm's actual stock price at the end of the day.

惠普在周三（4月28日）的时候宣布以每股5.7美元、总价12亿美元的价格并购了Palm，并在当日收盘时获得高于Palm的实际股价23%的收益。

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To diversify further away, earlier this year HP acquired Palm, the proprietary PDA-smartphone maker, to launch its own-branded smartphones, effectively competing directly against Nokia, Apple, Motorola, Samsung and Dell.

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In January 2012, Jon Rubinstein, former top engineer at Apple and then CEO at Palm, left Hewlett-Packard (HP) after serving his 24 months.

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To help share development costs of webOS and expand the market for its developers, HP has warmed to the idea of licensing the Palm-developed operating system.

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