A report by VentureBeat overnight quotes an anonymous source saying that Amazon.com is “in serious negotiations” to buy Palm from HP, acquiring assets including the well-regarded webOS software for smartphones and tablets. It’s getting a lot of attention in the tech media this morning.
The logic? ”By purchasing the remnants of Palm, Amazon would have free rein to redesign webOS to its own liking, and it would be able to further differentiate its Kindle devices from the slew of Android tablets in the market.”
We’ve asked Amazon if it wants to comment on the report, but in the meantime, something seems a little odd here.
Full story: Amazon buy Palm? This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.