The auction for Palm previous this year in fact attracted interest from a few famous Silicon Valley corporations, as well as some that were reportedly mostly interested in maintenance the intellectual property out of hands of their enemy. Hewlett-Packard finally turned in winning auction approving in April to pay $1.2 billion for PDA initiate.

But, prior to that was proclaimed, five famous Silicon Valley companies kicked the tires on corporations, as well as Apple, Google, and Research in Motion, as per the Business Insider report that cites sources familiar with compromises.

Interest in Palm's huge records of intellectual property and copyrights involved interest of two violent competitors Google and Apple. Apple bid on Palm for patent collection, still though it will indicate that corporation will contain to support two rival app platforms. Apple reportedly lost out as it didn't bid sufficient.

Next, Google was interested in Palm since it consideration Apple may desire the intellectual property, Business Insider reported. But, Google reportedly did not follow a bid as it supposed Apple was not bidding. Maybe most interesting is that BlackBerry creator RIM had deal for Palm in its hands and "had to work extremely hard to bluster it," a source told Business Insider. RIM was reportedly the leader however HP returned with a higher bid.