Amazon To Buy WebOS

Born at the hands of the former Palm since last year and living in very humble circumstances in the custody of HP, WebOS can be very close to winning a new home. According to sources at the site Venture Beat, the all-powerful Amazon is "very close" to close an agreement to acquire mobile platform that had as the highlight of his recent career high demand for touchpad tablet, sold at a discount after Buddy the announcement of his retirement.


The sources claim that HP has been talking with several companies to chart the future of the WebOS, but that the U.S. e-commerce giant is the company that is "closest" to close the deal. The mobile platform would be used to give life to the next generation versions of the Kindle and Fire, tablet presented earlier this week.

A deal would fall like a glove for both parties. HP is a library of mobile system with enormous possibilities in a market that she has no interest in play and Amazon would have taken something away to allow her to continue their products Android platform - as it already does with the Kindle Fire, which runs a custom version of the operating system as the little robot that you can barely recognize it.

While the agreement does not, HP will offer the devices in WebOS less glamorous than tablets. The company will launch in December a new generation of professional printers managed by the platform, I have expressed in the past.