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BlackBerry Will Rededicate Itself to Physical Keyboards
Jan 15, 2014BlackBerry will rededicate itself to physical keyboards as the company tries to regain its footing. Out of the four existing BlackBerry 10 smartphones, only the Q10 and Q5 have physical keyboards, and only the former is available ...
Tags: Blackberry, Physical Keyboard
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John Chen Has Sent an Open Letter to The Company's Customers
Dec 5, 2013New BlackBerry CEO John Chen has sent an open letter to the company's customers telling them that BlackBerry is "very much alive, thank you". The letter to customers is intended to reassure them that the investments that they have made in ...
Tags: Blackberry, New Blackberry CEO
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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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Lenovo Was Rebuffed in Its Attempt to Acquire Blackberry
Nov 7, 2013Lenovo, the Beijing-based PC and server maker, was rebuffed in its attempt to acquire smartphone maker BlackBerry by the Canadian government, which blocked its bid on national security grounds. According to Canada's Global and Mail ...
Tags: Computer Products, Blackberry
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BlackBerry Will Change Its CEO and Accept a US$1 Billion Loan
Nov 6, 2013BlackBerry will change its CEO and accept a US$1 billion loan from a consortium involving shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings as it struggles with inventory and strategy problems. The company has abandoned plans to sell itself. CEO ...
Tags: Blackberry, Computer Products
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BlackBerry's Appointment Monday of Former Sybase CEO John Chen
Nov 6, 2013BlackBerry's appointment Monday of former Sybase CEO John Chen as its next executive board chair and interim CEO could be the best news in months for the struggling smartphone company. Chen is seen as someone who can give business ...
Tags: Blackberry, Computer Products, software
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Fairfax Financial Holdings Is to Invest $250m in Blackberry Via a $1bn Private Placement
Nov 5, 2013Fairfax Financial Holdings, the Canadian investment fund leading a takeover of smartphone maker BlackBerry, is to invest $250m in BlackBerry via a $1bn private placement of convertible debenture. The financing move marks the close of ...
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Morgan Stanley Is Delaying a Planned Upgrade of Its BlackBerry Smartphones
Sep 2, 2013Investment bank Morgan Stanley is delaying a planned upgrade of its BlackBerry smartphones because of fears about the Canadian firm's ability to support the latest BlackBerry 10 platform over the long term, according to Bloomberg. Two ...
Tags: Computer Products, BlackBerry, smartphone
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Production of BlackBerry Smartphone Devices Has Been Cut in Half After The Company's CEO
Aug 23, 2013Production of BlackBerry smartphone devices has been cut in half after the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, effectively put the company up for sale. Heins, who under his contract of employment stands to earn more than $50m if the company is ...
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BlackBerry Shipped 6.8 Million Smartphones and Recorded a $84 Million Loss
Jun 28, 2013BlackBerry shipped 6.8 million smartphones and recorded a $84 million loss during the three months to June 1, as it struggles to turn around its fortunes. The first quarter of BlackBerry's fiscal year served as a referendum on how ...
Tags: Blackberry, Smartphones
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Blackberry Messenger Will Be Coming to IOS and Android App Stores at Some Point
Jun 10, 2013BlackBerry Messenger, a free messaging and social networking application for BlackBerry devices, will be coming to iOS and Android app stores at some point, but not June 27 as tweeted by T-Mobile UK early Thursday. T-Mobile did send out a ...
Tags: BlackBerry, Computer Products, IOS, Android
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Annual BlackBerry Live Conference Was Kicked off Tuesday with The Launch of a New 3.1-in
May 17, 2013The annual BlackBerry Live conference was kicked off Tuesday with the launch of a new 3.1-in. qwerty smartphone, the BlackBerry Q5, that's slated to go on sale this summer in emerging markets, but not in the U.S. Blackberry's qwerty Q5 ...
Tags: Blackberry, Smartphone, Computer Products
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BlackBerry's Free Messenger Service Is Being Expanded to Work with iOS and Android Devices
May 16, 2013BlackBerry's free Messenger service is being expanded to work with iOS and Android devices. Analysts regarded the move -- announced today at BlackBerry Live -- as mostly positive, since it could help an improving BlackBerry expand its ...
Tags: BlackBerry, iOS, Android
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BlackBerry Is to Port Its Popular BlackBerry Messenger Tool to Android and IOS
May 16, 2013Smartphone maker BlackBerry is to port its popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) tool to Android and iOS. It will be available on all three platforms by the summer, claims the company, and crucially will be free. Further reading Analysis: ...
Tags: Blackberry, BBM, Apple, Android, Smartphone
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Research In Motion Unveiled Lower-Cost Blackberry Aimed at Consumers in Emerging Markets
May 16, 2013Research In Motion has unveiled a lower-cost BlackBerry aimed at consumers in emerging markets, and said it will offer its once-popular BlackBerry Messenger service on iPhones and devices running Google's Android software. CEO Thorsten ...
Tags: RIM, BlackBerry, Phone