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BlackBerry‘s been on the auction block since August, following a rough couple years. Now it looks like an offer’s been made , to the tune of $4.7 Billion dollars. The Once-great smartphone maker, Research in Motion signed a preliminary deal to be acquired by a Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd, a consortium headed by Prem Watsa…
In a weird twist of events BlackBerry may become a private company with one of its original founders Mike Lazaridis buying it out. That, of course, is still a rumor but as they say – where there’s smoke there’s fire. According to the New York Times report, Lazaridis might be making a play to bid…
Some of us expected to get the BBM from the Google Play Store and/or Apple’s App Store for the weekend. Alas, we’ll have to wait a little longer for that privilege. You see BBM did hit the App Store but its Android counterpart was leaked before “officially” hitting the Play Store. The Canadian company didn’t…
A new, still unannounced BlackBerry device has been caught in the wild. According to BBIN (and brought to our attention by CrackBerry), what you can see above is a device from the Canadian company’s C-Series, codenamed Americano. As you can see for yourself, this unit looks very much like the newly unveiled BlackBerry Z30 though…
Today BlackBerry has confirmed its most grim news to date, as the company announced it would be laying of 4,500 more employees, which is almost 40 percent of its workforce. After the layoffs the Waterloo company will have 7,000 jobs remaining. In addition BlackBerry reported that it had lost $950 million for its last financial…
We’re still covered in the Apple, iOS haze. Last week was the big announcement, and today is the release of iOS 7 to the masses. Now it seems we may finally see the long-awaited launch of BlackBerry’s BBM app on iOS, as the latest rumors puts its debut at September 21. Apparently, the application will…
Another day, another rumor dealing with the future of BlackBerry. This time round a Reuters report suggests the company has “narrowed its list of potential bidders” in an effort to push for a quick sale, which — as we reported earlier — could happen as early as November. It is suggested that private equity firm…
BlackBerry may be on the brink of failure, but that’s not stopping the company from holding press events in Europe for some mystery announcement. The events are slated to be held September 18th and invites are arriving for press in Malaysia, France and India. Nobody knows what they events are about, but some people suggest…
BlackBerry’s soon-to-be-launched Z30 will most certainly be available across most (if not all) Canadian carriers. We have a confirmation that Bell Mobility will be among those selling this smartphone — a leaked document suggests this while also confirming the Z30 as the go-to-market name. Unfortunately, the same document doesn’t tell us anything about the release…
The BlackBerry ship is sinking deeper and deeper by the day. The Canadian based phone maker is reported to be laying off several dozen members of its U.S. sales force, according to AllThingsD. This job cutting effort is apart of the company’s ongoing strategy to rid itself of expenditures due to evaporating sales and market…