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alt="McNameeFB.jpg" title="McNameeFB.jpg" width="406" height="440" /Elevation Partners spent $325
million on a 25% stake in Palm (PALM) in June 2007. Yesterday, a
href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/palm-fall-sales-sucked-slashing-costs-for-hail-mary"Palm
pre-announced fiscal Q2 revenues 40% below Wall Street expectations./a/p pBut don't worry about
Elevation Partners investor Roger McNamee. Roger's found a venue for taking out his frustrations:
Trolling a a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=38156726114ref=nf"Verizon (VZ)
Wireless Facebook page/a touting the a
href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/rim-blackberry-storm-review"new RIM (RIMM) BlackBerry
Storm/a, telling visitors to check out emNew York Times/em columnist David Pogue's a
href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/seven-reasons-pogue-hates-the-blackberry-storm"nasty
review/a./p pWe know Roger, who plays in a rock band with former SNL band leader G.E. Smith, is a
fun guy. So this is probably just Roger being Roger. But let's hope that Palm's sharp cost cuts
aren't affecting its emtrained/em P.R. team./p pstrongSee Also:/stronga
href="../../2008/12/palm-fall-sales-sucked-slashing-costs-for-hail-mary"strongbr //strongPalm: Fall
Sales Horrible, Slashing Costs (PALM)/a/p pspan/span/p pa
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