Palm Hires PR Manager Away from Apple

The list of high-level Apple employees who have jumped ship to join Palm has a new entry. Lynn Fox, who was formerly the Director of Mac PR, has reportedly been hired by Palm.

There can be little doubt that the man behind this move is Jon Rubinstein, Palm's Chairman and an Apple alumni himself.

Rubinstein has been shaking up Palm's management team since he joined the company around the middle of last year, and Fox isn't the first person he's lured over from his old company.

For example, Mike Bell was brought on board a few months ago to be Palm's Senior Vice President of Product Development. Previously, he was Apple's Vice President, CPU Software, in the Macintosh Hardware Division.

So far the hiring of Fox has not been announced by Palm, but Rubenstein's habit of "poaching" Apple employees has reportedly become a sore subject between the two companies. The only acknowledgment Palm made that it had hired Bell was his name appeared on its list of executives.

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Via Valleywag