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Tag: RIM

Ex-BlackBerry half-CEO Balsillie: I knew we couldn’t compete with Apple’s iPhone

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 6:28 pm102 Comments

Former BlackBerry half-chief executive Jim Balsillie said Tuesday…

Apple pounds final nail in beleaguered BlackBerry’s coffin

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 4:51 pmWednesday, July 23, 201425 Comments

Apple+IBM: For BlackBerry in particular it is a match made in hell…

Beleaguered BlackBerry plunges after sale to Fairfax falls through; CEO Heins out

Monday, November 4, 2013 5:35 pmMonday, November 4, 201320 Comments

The saga of beleaguered BlackBerry continues…

Apple recruits employees from beleaguered BlackBerry

Thursday, October 10, 2013 3:01 pmThursday, October 10, 201314 Comments

Apple Inc. has all but destroyed BlackBerry Ltd.’s business model…

DCW Blackberry begins axing 4,500 employees

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 12:28 pmWednesday, October 9, 201312 Comments

BlackBerry wasted little time in embarking on the layoffs…

Beleaguered BlackBerry hit with shareholder class action lawsuit for misrepresenting state of company

Saturday, October 5, 2013 3:01 pmSaturday, October 5, 201329 Comments

A shareholder of BlackBerry Ltd sued the company and its executives on Friday…

How BlackBerry blew it: The inside story

Monday, September 30, 2013 6:00 pmMonday, September 30, 201331 Comments

Late last year, Research In Motion Ltd. chief executive officer Thorsten Heins…

Beleaguered Blackberry reports $965 million second quarter loss

Friday, September 27, 2013 8:58 amFriday, September 27, 201334 Comments

Blackberry has reported a second quarter net loss of $965 million…

T-Mobile USA stops stocking beleaguered BlackBerry’s phones

Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:57 amThursday, September 26, 201331 Comments

Shares in beleaguered BlackBerry fell more than 6 percent on Wednesday…

Amateur hour is over: Beleaguered BlackBerry sold to Fairfax Financial-led consortium

Monday, September 23, 2013 4:20 pmMonday, September 23, 201351 Comments

Beleaguered smartphone maker Blackberry has agreed…

Beleaguered BlackBerry to ax workforce by up to 40%

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:30 pmWednesday, September 18, 201326 Comments

Beleaguered BlackBerry Ltd. is axing its workforce…

Beleaguered BlackBerry: Sometimes the best a company can hope for is death

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:28 pmTuesday, August 20, 201331 Comments

The idea of a natural life cycle for a business…

iPhone roadkill: Beleaguered BlackBerry is dead company walking

Friday, August 16, 2013 4:02 pmFriday, August 16, 201316 Comments

Beleaguered BlackBerry is seen as ripe for a sale after misjudging the smartphone revolution launched by Apple…

Why potential buyers won’t line up for beleaguered BlackBerry

Monday, August 12, 2013 6:46 pm21 Comments

It doesn’t look like suitors will be coming out of the woodwork…

Beleaguered BlackBerry explores sale of company

Monday, August 12, 2013 8:44 amMonday, August 12, 201321 Comments

BlackBerry Ltd. said Monday that its board of directors has formed a special committee…

Beleaguered BlackBerry plummets after posting loss, lower-than-projected sales

Friday, June 28, 2013 8:36 amFriday, June 28, 201319 Comments

BlackBerry (BBRY), the Canadian smartphone maker…

Ousted half-CEO Lazaridis to step down from beleaguered BlackBerry board on May 1

Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:33 pmThursday, March 28, 20137 Comments

Beleaguered BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis, who was ousted from the co-CEO role…

Former RIM half-CEO Jim Balsillie dumps all BlackBerry shares

Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:28 pmThursday, February 14, 201315 Comments

Jim Balsillie, the man who grew Research In Motion Ltd. from a small Waterloo…

The mobile train has left the Windows 8 platform behind

Thursday, February 7, 2013 10:13 pm43 Comments

According to Canaccord Genuity, Apple took in 69% of the handset profits in 2012…

How to dodge interview questions about Apple’s iPhone, RIM style

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 2:50 pmWednesday, January 30, 201324 Comments

When repeatedly asked what his company RIM Europe have learned from Apple…

Beijing-based Lenovo considering buying BlackBerry-maker RIM, says CFO

Thursday, January 24, 2013 4:29 pmThursday, January 24, 201310 Comments

Lenovo Group Ltd. is assessing potential acquisition targets…

Apple dominates smartphone OS satisfaction survey

Friday, January 18, 2013 12:31 pmFriday, January 18, 201317 Comments

Apple is the clear leader…

Research firm ranks Apple App Store as top mobile app storefront; Microsoft edges Apple on app discovery

Wednesday, January 2, 2013 4:33 pm10 Comments

In terms of implementation, Apple came first, ahead of Google and RIM…

Enderle: Why 2013 is RIM’s BlackBerry year

Monday, December 31, 2012 9:29 am37 Comments

As we look ahead to 2013, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the new year…

Beleaguered RIM shares plummet 20% on news of new fee structure for services

Friday, December 21, 2012 2:31 pm11 Comments

Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd dropped 20 percent on Friday…

Beleaguered RIM posts loss of $114 million; sales tumble 47%; 1 million subscribers lost last quarter

Thursday, December 20, 2012 5:01 pmThursday, December 20, 201226 Comments

Research In Motion reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday…

Beware the sucker’s rally in beleaguered RIM, Nokia

Tuesday, December 18, 2012 3:02 pm9 Comments

Research in Motion (RIMM) shares have roughly doubled in three months…

Apple gains on Samsung in U.S. mobile phone market share on iPhone 5 launch

Saturday, December 1, 2012 12:28 pm10 Comments

comScore, Inc. has released data from the comScore MobiLens service…

Goldman Sachs boosts rating on beleaguered RIM, shares surge

Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:08 amThursday, November 29, 201221 Comments

Research In Motion received a big boost on Thursday after Goldman Sachs…

U.S. NTSB dumps beleaguered RIM BlackBerry over reliability issues, switches to Apple iPhone 5

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 4:15 pm11 Comments

The National Transportation Safety Board disclosed its plan to switch to Apple Inc.’s iPhone 5…

Beleaguered RIM CEO confident of BlackBerry 10 success

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:02 pm52 Comments

Thorsten Heins, CEO of beleaguered RIM, says, “I don’t expect things to get much worse”…

Beleaguered RIM to unveil BlackBerry 10 on January 30, 2013

Monday, November 12, 2012 6:01 pm13 Comments

Research In Motion Ltd. plans to showcase the first two of its BlackBerry 10 smartphones…

Scientists: Beleaguered RIM’s BlackBerry phone could cause allergic reaction

Monday, November 12, 2012 11:21 amMonday, November 12, 201215 Comments

BlackBerry or iPhone? It’s been a battle for years, but Apple’s smartphone offering may be healthier…

Apple’s iPhone 5 slows Android growth in U.S. and U.K.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:02 pm8 Comments

Android’s rate of growth has slowed as week one of iPhone 5 sales show iOS gaining in the US and Great Britain…

IDC estimates Samsung outshipped Apple 2-1 in worldwide smartphone market in Q312

Friday, October 26, 2012 2:01 pm27 Comments

The worldwide mobile phone market grew 2.4% year over year in the third quarter of 2012…

U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) dropping RIM BlackBerry and purchasing 17,000 Apple iPhones

Friday, October 19, 2012 6:21 pmSaturday, October 20, 201227 Comments

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency plans to end its eight-year…

Woolworths dumps beleaguered RIM’s Blackberry for Apple iPhone 5

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:28 amWednesday, October 17, 201219 Comments

Australia’s largest supermarket chain, Woolworths, is dumping its fleet of BlackBerrys…

Those still using BlackBerry phones ‘ashamed’

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 1:36 pm29 Comments

I want to take a bat to it…

Taiwan minister draws ire for promoting Apple’s iPhone 5

Monday, October 1, 2012 10:01 amMonday, October 1, 201269 Comments

Senior Taiwanese officials have been under scrutiny for the smartphones they use…

Beleaguered RIM screens perhaps the worst corporate music video ever (with video)

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:01 amTuesday, September 25, 201255 Comments

Beleaguered RIM’s cringe-worthy, tech jargon-littered remake of a popular song…

BlackBerry 10 adds so many features that so few people want

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 5:31 pm25 Comments

RIM CEO and possible Bond villain Thorstein Heins gave the world…

Beleaguered RIM drops as massive Blackberry outage hits Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Friday, September 21, 2012 3:00 pmFriday, September 21, 20129 Comments

Shares of Research In Motion approached nine-year lows Friday…

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