Apple, Google and RIM were three of the companies engaged in the bidding war over Palm before it was bought by HP, a potentially telling leak asserted this afternoon. The iPhone maker, likely Company A from Palm's SEC filings, was purportedly interested first in Palm's patents but would have gone so far as to keep funding Palm for at least awhile, possibly to slow down RIM's BlackBerries. Apple is believed to have lost the deal by underbidding before it reached the final phases.
