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Tag: Mike Lazaridis

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…

BlackBerry co-founders mull bid to takeover beleaguered company

Thursday, October 10, 2013 5:32 pmThursday, October 10, 201312 Comments

BlackBerry co-founder and former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis…

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…

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…

Former half-CEOs Balsillie, Lazaridis pocket $12 million in ‘entitlements’ from beleaguered RIM

Friday, June 15, 2012 8:48 amFriday, June 15, 201216 Comments

Beleaguered “Research In Motion Ltd. will pay former half-CEOs…

How beleaguered RIM’s half-CEOs lost an empire

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:30 pmTuesday, February 21, 201220 Comments

Research In Motion, whose BlackBerry phones pioneered wireless email…

Beleaguered RIM names new CEO; half-CEOs step down amid struggle to answer Apple

Sunday, January 22, 2012 10:51 pmMonday, January 23, 201239 Comments

Research In Motion’s co-chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie…

The seven habits of spectacularly unsuccessful executives

Wednesday, January 4, 2012 5:06 pm39 Comments

Research on what over 50 former high-flying companies – like Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Rubbermaid, and Schwinn – did to become complete failures…

Beleaguered RIM’s half-CEOs: Portrait of pathetic

Friday, December 16, 2011 1:33 pmFriday, December 16, 201115 Comments

James Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis vs. Steve Jobs: Proof that two heads aren’t better than one…

With Yahoo’s Bartz out, these 4 tech CEOs should have their golden parachutes strapped on tightly

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 1:44 pm21 Comments

With Carol Bartz out at Yahoo!, the list of CEOs on the brink shrinks to four…

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