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Palm Chief Executive Quits
News Palm chief executive Carl Yankowski resigned on Thursday, following a brutal year in which the handheld computing leader went from being profitable and flush with cash to being plagued by a glut of products and significant losses.
[November 9, 2001, 8:44]
Palm Chief Admits Mistakes
News Palm chief executive Carl Yankowski began his company's annual shareholders meeting on a conciliatory note Thursday, mindful that virtually everyone in the crowd had lost a bundle on his company's stock.
[October 12, 2001, 9:31]
Palm Chief Extends His Hand To Corporations
News Aiming to restore confidence in his struggling company, Palm chief Carl Yankowski announced on Tuesday several new deals designed to attract more corporate customers. Yankowski noted that mobile devices are "creating phenomenal levels of freedom to...
[June 27, 2001, 10:36]
Can Palm Pocket E-tailing?
News Palm CEO, Carl Yankowski, unveiled eWallet at the Computer Electronics Show on Saturday, an upcoming feature that will allow Palm users to buy products and services via their handhelds. The handheld will be transformed into a wallet this year...
[January 8, 2001, 10:56]
CTO Resigns: Will Palm Lose Its Grip?
News Palm chief executive Carl Yankowski wrote in a company-wide email Monday that Bill Maggs, the chief technology officer, will be leaving the company. Yankowski did not announce a successor. In his email, Yankowski wrote that Maggs played an...
[January 17, 2001, 7:37]
Be Buy Will Help Palm Target Microsoft
News But Kessler, Yankowski and Palm's board all agreed that someone else was needed to head the OS unit, she said. This move will help us expand the Palm OS platform into broader markets," Carl Yankowski, Palm's chief executive, said in a statement.
[August 17, 2001, 9:24]
Palm To Brave The Storm At PC Expo
News Palm officials said Yankowski was unable to comment on this story due to the company being in a quiet period. In addition to the mixed messages in the enterprise, Palm -- and Yankowski in particular -- is being hit for early product announcements.
[June 26, 2001, 7:10]
Sweaty Palms As Supermodel Attends Developers Conference
News Palm chief executive Carl Yankowski concurred. Although Microsoft is clearly going after the large corporate customers Yankowski said such companies do want to do business with Palm, as long as they are sure they can get the programs and support...
[December 11, 2000, 14:33]
Palm Reports Narrower-than-expected Loss
News We remain convinced that wireless will take off," Yankowski said. We will not release this product during this holiday season," Yankowski said, although he said the company has been testing the device.
[September 21, 2001, 9:18]
Palm To Separate OS Business
News We're eager to foster the independence of both of our businesses, and creating a separate subsidiary for our platform activities will allow us to bring greater clarity of mission, better serve licensees and, we believe, increase shareholder value...
[July 30, 2001, 9:32]
Palm's Q4 Losses Expected To Double
News Our new m500 family of handheld computers is shipping in volume later than we had hoped, precluding the opportunity for distributors, retailers and resellers to reorder in our fourth quarter," said Carl Yankowski, Palm's chief executive, adding...
[May 18, 2001, 14:34]
Palm Shares Dive On Grim Outlook
News Further reductions are expected associated with the acquisition of Extended Systems," chief executive Carl Yankowski said on the conference call. Palm has recently begun to feel the effects of the deteriorating macroeconomic environment," Yankowski...
[March 28, 2001, 8:11]
Handheld Chiefs Look To New Markets For Growth
News Palm chief executive Carl Yankowski said his company, with its line of Palm handhelds, already has an edge, boasting that his company's "unaided brand awareness is incredible. Yankowski said the software will be bundled with Palm's m500 line.
[August 10, 2001, 15:44]
Palm To Buy Software Maker Be
News This move will help us expand the Palm OS platform into broader markets using their multimedia media and Internet expertise," Carl Yankowski, Palm's chief executive, said in a statement. Palm on Thursday announced it is acquiring the assets and...
[August 16, 2001, 15:17]
Palm Fights To Keep Lead In Enterprise PDAs
News Little wonder that chief executive Carl Yankowski recently told analysts that the company was weighing up plans that could mean "dramatically changing our business model". As Networks Telecom 2001 gathers momentum at Birmingham's NEC, employees on...
[June 27, 2001, 15:44]
Investor Hands Palm $50m
News Benhamou is also the company's interim chief executive, having replaced Carl Yankowski last month. Palm said on Friday that an unnamed investor has provided $50m in financing to help fund Palm's wireless and corporate sales efforts.
[December 7, 2001, 16:10]
Palm To Replace Buggy Devices
News The problem is the latest challenge to the handheld maker, which last week saw the departure of chief executive Carl Yankowski after months of turmoil that included the botched launch of the m500 series, a glut of inventory and a free-falling...
[November 12, 2001, 9:33]
The Day Ahead: Will Palm's Palm Reading Rattle Investors?
News Recently we've seen it tightening dramatically," CEO Carl Yankowski told analysts. What a difference a few days makes. On Monday, Palm's quiet period ended and underwriters talked up the stock. Optimism was everywhere.
[March 29, 2000, 12:54]
Mobiles To Push PCs Aside At TechX
News Palm, whose chief executive, Carl Yankowski, will give the opening keynote address Tuesday morning, will announce new information about partnerships. As if anyone needed further evidence that the PC industry is on the skids, consider that it can't...
[June 22, 2001, 16:15]
Palm Preparing To Slash Staff
News Adding to the woes, several key executives have left the company, including former chief technology Officer Bill Maggs; the former general manager of its Platform Solutions group, Alan Kessler; and, most recently, former chief executive Carl...
[November 21, 2001, 9:13]
