Palm laying off staffers as part of the HP acquisition?

While the world is focused on HP and the future of webOS, some Palm employees are reportedly pondering their own future after they were handed pink slips this week. According to an unnamed source, “many” employees were supposedly laid off in the days just prior to the completion of the HP/Palm merger. The source did not quote numbers or name names so the total sum of people and positions that were removed are unknown. HP and Palm have not publicly disclosed any reduction in the work force so we will have to wait for these ex-Palm employees to come out of the wood work to either confirm or refute this rumor. Anyone willing to stand up and be counted?

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