Word: colligan
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...leaving him exposed. Not coincidentally, at about that time, Anderson joined Elevation Partners, a private-equity firm that had invested $325 million to buy a 26% share of Palm. (It now owns 34%.) Thinking that Rubinstein was just what Palm needed to right itself, Anderson introduced him to Ed Colligan, Palm's CEO. Colligan visited Rubinstein in Mexico and ultimately convinced him that Palm needed him to orchestrate a Jobs-style reinvention...
...computer for every pocket. That idea has been the core of Palm, Inc.'s strategy. Ed Colligan, president and CEO of the maker of the Treo smartphone and other wireless handheld devices, spoke with TIME's LAURA LOCKE about the future of mobile computing and why Palm joined forces with Microsoft...
...COLLIGAN: From the very beginning, we felt the future of personal computing is mobile computing. We're halfway there. In the not too distant future, people will turn to [portable] devices for their computing needs, to access information and to communicate. I think we're going to lead that continued revolution. Ten years from now, I think we will have every opportunity to be like Intel, Apple, Cisco, Oracle and the great companies in Silicon Valley...
...more Google searches done on devices like this than any other kind of computing device. This will be the [core] computer for a lot of people around the world. But maybe we haven't done a good enough job of communicating about what our products can do now. [Colligan picks up a Treo 650.] I have a 2-GB expansion card here. I can store approximately 10 movies on this. I can also download an application called MobiTV and view television on this. So it's not as Star Treky as it sounds. It's possible today...
...Morgan has only 25 titles in publication and doesn't plan a major expansion. Ladies Who Launch's Colligan says mothers often tell her they don't want their businesses to grow too fast. "Men would want it to be a $10 million company tomorrow," she says. "Moms have small children. They want to be with them. A steady pace is fine with them right...