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Kristian Tear Have Both Left The Company with Immediate Effect
Nov 27, 2013BlackBerry's chief operating officer, Kristian Tear, and chief marketing officer, Frank Boulben, have both left the company with immediate effect, while chief financial officer Brian Bidulka will leave at the end of the financial year, the ...
Tags: exec, BlackBerry, management, shake-up
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BlackBerry Has Continued Its Clear out of Top Level Staff by Removing COO,Kristian Tear
Nov 27, 2013BlackBerry has continued its clear out of top level staff by removing COO, Kristian Tear, and CMO Frank Boulben. Interim CEO, John Chen, who was appointed on November 4 after the ousting of Thorsten Heins, hasn’t hesitated to pull ...
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Troubled Smartphone Maker Has Moved to Reassure Its Customers
Oct 16, 2013Troubled smartphone maker has moved to reassure its customers - by writing to them and taking out full-page press advertisements telling them that it isn't going out of business. The letters to key customers and partners, reproduced in 30 ...
Tags: Blackberry, software, Computer Products, smartphone
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BlackBerry Is Excited to Bring a New BlackBerry QWERTY Smartphone
May 15, 2013It’s an art to begin a presentation with a bang – and Thorsten Heins, CEO, BlackBerry seemed to have mastered that. The Blackberry Live 2013 started this morning in sunny Orlando with the opening speech by Heins announcing the ...
Tags: Mobile, BlackBerry
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BlackBerry Faces a Herculean Task Marketing The New Z10 Smartphone to U.S. Consumers
Mar 13, 2013BlackBerry faces a herculean task marketing the new Z10 smartphone to U.S. consumers. In interviews, analysts and CIOs told Computerworld that employees at companies with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies have been switching from ...
Tags: Blackberry, Computer Products
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Heins Announced The Company's Latest Financials in a Particularly Grim Earnings Call
Jan 2, 2013On June 28,Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins announced the company's latest financials in a particularly grim earnings call.Heins reported a first-quarter loss of$518 million,or 99 cents a share.Overall sales for the period were$2.8 ...
Tags: RIM, BlackBerry, CEO Thorsten Heins, consumer electronics
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RIM Posted Huge Losses for Its First Quarter
Dec 17, 2012Research in Motion (RIM) posted huge losses for its first quarter, admitting the outlook for the rest of the year was just as bleak. In an earnings call to investors last night, the BlackBerry manufacturer confirmed revenues had fallen by ...
Tags: RIM, huge losses, first quarter