“BlackBerry co-founder and former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis is considering taking a run at his former company with fellow co-founder Doug Fregin,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD.
“According to a regulatory filing released Thursday, the pair are exploring a potential takeover bid for the struggling smartphone company, which is already entertaining a $4.7 billion offer from its largest shareholder Fairfax Financial,” Paczkowski reports. “Together, Lazaridis and Fregin hold an eight percent stake in the Canadian company — about 41.7 million shares — and are exploring “the possibility of submitting a potential joint bid to acquire” all of the BlackBerry shares they do not already own.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: An NHL team (in Timbuktu) would be a better investment. Call up Jimmy, he’ll jump at the chance.
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“I drove this company into the ground. Left it a ‘has-been’, way behind the market leader. And now, I might buy it.”
Uhhhh. Whut!? Didn’t learn about that approach in business school.
I hope they buy it back, perhaps then they can tell us how easy it is to walk In Steve Jobs shoes after he came back to Apple inc.
Ps nothing wrong with TIMbuktu, I am still waiting for the iPhone 5S to turn up though!!!
The quote that comes to mind is “I’d by that for a dollar.”
Yes, right out of Michael Dell’s book on how to acquire your public company at a discount rate.
MDN, u r 1 sarcastic s.o.b. and I ❤️it!!
Why put down Blackberry?! Not that I am a fan of them..hate their devices.
It’s amazing… absolutely amazing.
Go ahead Mike & Doug, buy it back. I cannot wait to see the results.
And to think that this company was one of Cramer’s Four Horsemen not too long ago….
do they have a rink in Timbuktu ?
they don’t even have a library now that the islamists are in charge
“mull a bid to takeover…”
Takeover what?!
A new soup… RIM Turtle Soup… Because Blackberry is a former “shell” of itself!
This is what is called “Throwing in good money after bad”.
The founders are better off starting their own company from scratch if they want back into the Biz.