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Gist and Tungle Founders Bail on BlackBerry
When BlackBerry finally gets around to the next round of layoffs it is reportedly plotting, it can dial back its head-count reduction, thanks to a pair of employees who have taken matters into their...
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The BlackBerry Q5's Next Emerging Market? Canada.
Canada isn’t exactly the “emerging market” for which BlackBerry’s new Q5 smartphone was intended, but the company plans to launch it in the country anyway. Come Aug. 13, the keyboard-equipped Q5 —...
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Three More BlackBerry Execs Head for the Exits
BlackBerry confirmed Wednesday that three executives have left or are in the process of leaving the Canadian smartphone maker. Senior VP of Manufacturing Carmine Arabia and VPs Doug Kozak and Graeme...
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BlackBerry's Patent Portfolio Ripe for Picking
BlackBerry’s continuing decline has left it with comparatively little to offer a potential acquirer. There’s a crumbling smartphone business, a too-late-to-market operating system that has failed to...
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BlackBerry Will Be Lucky to Get $12 to $13 Per Share in a Buyout
Coming up with a reasonable takeout price for BlackBerry, given the turnaround challenges facing the company and its deteriorating fundamentals, is no easy task. But a few analysts have taken a stab at...
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BlackBerry CEO Will Cash In if Company Is Sold
Don’t worry about BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins. He’s going to be just fine, regardless of what happens to the foundering smartphone maker. Indeed, he’s in for quite a financial windfall if things...
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What If BlackBerry's Patents Aren't So Valuable After All?
BlackBerry’s patent portfolio is believed by some to be among the company’s most valuable assets. But what if it’s not? What if its worth to a potential BlackBerry suitor is undermined by preexisting...
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120,000 Apps in BlackBerry World (Spoiler: 47,000 Made by One Developer)
Looks like BlackBerry has seen some success with its developer outreach efforts, though perhaps not quite the sort it would like. A cursory review of BlackBerry World, the company’s app store, reveals...
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Will BlackBerry Be Sold for Parts?
It has been well over a month since BlackBerry formally put itself up for sale, but interest in the much-diminished smartphone pioneer has been muted. Sources close to BlackBerry tell Reuters that a...
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BlackBerry Messenger Hits Android and iOS This Weekend
At long last, BlackBerry is making its popular messaging platform, BlackBerry Messenger, cross-platform. This weekend, the company will release BBM clients for the two rival mobile operating systems to...
View ArticleFormer BlackBerry Co-CEO Lazaridis Has Talked With PE Firms About Bid for...
Former BlackBerry Ltd. co-Chief Executive Officer Mike Lazaridis has been talking with private-equity firms about possibly mounting a joint bid for the struggling smartphone maker, whose troubles came...
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BlackBerry Is Selling Off Its Corporate Jets
Months before announcing a near $1 billion net operating loss and plans to eliminate 40 percent of its workforce, foundering smartphone pioneer BlackBerry bought a long-range private jet in which to...
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Does Fairfax Have Resources -- And Motivation -- To Close BlackBerry Deal?
So BlackBerry has found itself a buyer in majority shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings. The question now is, can Fairfax close the deal, and does it even want to? If the answer to those questions...
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BlackBerry Manufacturing Partner Looking to Bail
BlackBerry’s ongoing collapse is becoming a serious drag on the company’s manufacturing partner Jabil Circuit. So much so that Jabil is considering ending its business relationship with the struggling...
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BlackBerry to Gartner: Not Dead Yet!
BlackBerry might be in trouble — ugly, worst-case-scenario trouble — but it’s not yet in terminal decline, and the company has taken exception with a report claiming it is. In a recent note to clients,...
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How Low Will Prem Watsa's BlackBerry Offer Go?
If Prem Watsa and Fairfax Financial do move ahead with their deal to take BlackBerry private, how much will they end up paying for the increasingly infirm smartphone pioneer? Significantly less than...
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Cerberus Chewing Over BlackBerry Bid
BlackBerry’s long-suffering stock price is spiking today on reports that another private equity player may take a run at its business. BlackBerry shares rose nearly two percent to touch a high of $8.14...
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Cerberus Browsing BlackBerry's Books for Buyout Bid
BlackBerry’s prolonged downward spiral and uncertain future is proving a potent deterrent to many companies that might mount a bid for the collapsing smartphone pioneer, but evidently not to Cerberus...
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AllThingsD Week in Review: BlackBerry Is Just Resting, and YouTube Goes...
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Amid great uncertainty, BlackBerry publicly pledged this week that it’s not dead yet and, in...
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BlackBerry Scraps Bid to Find Buyer, Replaces CEO Thorsten Heins, Gets $1...
BlackBerry is giving up its effort to sell itself to a large investor, and will replace CEO Thorsten Heins, the company said on Monday. The company said that, rather than bid for it, Fairfax Financial...
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BlackBerry Shares Crash on Word of Buyout Bid Failure
Shares of the troubled Canadian wireless company BlackBerry fell by more than 16 percent in pre-market trading Monday, following the collapse of an expected buyout bid from Fairfax Financial. CEO...
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AllThingsD Week in Review: Snapchat's Many Suitors, and Finding the Fastest...
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Why is Snapchat’s valuation so high? It might be because viewing the service’s ephemeral...
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BlackBerry Reports Massive $4.4 Billion Quarterly Loss, Inks a Deal With Foxconn
BlackBerry, the troubled Canadian smartphone company, just reported its quarterly results and, well, let’s just say its troubles aren’t getting any smaller. Its loss, on a GAAP basis, came out to $4.4...
View ArticleBlackBerry Shares Sink on Lazaridis Letdown
Evidently some folks really did believe BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis was going to swoop in like a deus ex machina and return the dilapidated smartphone pioneer to its former glory. Shares in...
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How Can You Miss Us if We Won't Go Away? Paczkowski and Swisher Highlights...
A day late, but here’s the last installment of highlight posts from AllThingsD staffers, as we reach twilight on Dec. 31 and this site is no more. As one of my fave depressing funeral poems goes: “Do...
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