Tag Archives: Economy of Canada

Potential Buyers Wait For Blackberry’s Patents

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Potential buyers are waiting on the sidelines to see if Blackberry will part with its patents, according to two sector bankers. One banker speculated that if by 2015, Blackberry’s turnaround proves...

BlackBerry Stock Surges Surprisingly

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Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry continued its surprising stock rally on Wednesday, bringing it up over 26% over the last three days of trading even as other phone makers and the rest of the...

BlackBerry cuts ties with Alica Keys

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Alica Keys is not only known for her singing and songwriting skills. In January last year, BlackBerry hired the Grammy award-winning artist as its global creative director in an effort to boost the...
    






Gun Ban At Country Star Toby Keith’s Newest Restaurant Causes Outcry

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In mid-December, the 15th in country superstar Toby Keith’s growing restaurant chain opened its doors in the North Virginia town of Woodbridge, around 20 miles south of Washington, D.C. It didn’t...
    






BlackBerry loses CEO, gets $1 billion for emergency investment

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News is out that the companies had offered to buy the patents or intellectual properties of BlackBerry only. However, there was news that Fairfax Financial Holdings had proposed a takeover proposal...

Blackberry Z30 Fails But BlackBerry Completes $1 Billion Investment

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Blackberry has announced on Wednesday that it has completed the US $1 billion investment. The Canadian firm has announced previously to sale US $1 billion debentures to private companies. Yesterday,...

Blackberry bringing out the ‘Big Guns’ with the new Z30

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The Z10 was likened to Blackberry building an iPhone imitation to house its Z10 platform. The Z30, has been likened, even before its release to the Galaxy S4 or HTC One. Critics and gadget gurus...

BlackBerry Cancels Earnings Call of September 27

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BlackBerry Limited has announced on Wednesday that it cancels its Friday morning conference call and webcast to release its complete second quarter financial results. It is obvious that the financial...

Why Fairfax’s Prem Watsa Wants to Buy BlackBerry for $4.7 Billion?

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It is off to the auctioneers for BlackBerry Limited. Since the last few years or so it had faced a time of troubles. Finally, after much dilly-dallying it has found a customer in Fairfax. The...

BlackBerry Q10 a flop, says retailers and carriers

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When BlackBerry, formerly RIM, unveiled the keyboard-touting Q10  in January this year, we initially thought that sales would break the records - a key factor in turning the company around....