PalmSource getting bought by….Access? UPDATE: Confirmed!
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Wow, did not see that coming. While I figured that someone would likely buyout PalmSouce eventually, I did not expect to see our friends from Japan becoming the new owners.
Haven’t been able to confirm this, but we’ve just received a report that Access, a Japanese company that makes software for mobile phones, has successfully raised the financing needed and has made a bid to scoop up PalmSource for the princely sum of ¥30 billion (just over $270 million). Why? Well reportedly Access is looking for a way to expand the market for its cellphone browser (which is currently used by many of DoCoMo’s FOMA 3G phones), and since both Symbian and Windows Mobile are largely closed off to them they’ve apparently decided that what they need is to have their own operating system. [Read the rest]