Co-founder Mike Lazaridis increases BlackBerry stake, considers bid
BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis, who is likely just as responsible for BlackBerry’s early success as he is for its collapse, on Thursday filed a Schedule …
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Rogers has a change of heart, will now carry BlackBerry Z30
In what has been a tragically difficult year for BlackBerry, the cell phone maker deserves a reprieve and Canada’s Rogers Wireless is just the company …
BlackBerry considers breakup if Fairfax fails to find funding
BlackBerry is reportedly warming up to the idea of breaking the company apart and selling off the pieces. The news comes from an unnamed inside …
New round of layoffs has begun at BlackBerry
As BlackBerry continues to fight for its life, the company announced late last month that it will eliminate about 4,500 jobs in an effort to …
That’s it for TAT: Designers split with BlackBerry for new startup
Several years ago, BlackBerry acquired The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a team that was well known in the mobile industry for designing gorgeous user interfaces. Less …
Canadian pension fund CEO: BlackBerry sale ‘the most bizarre sales process I’ve seen’
If you have no idea what’s going on with Fairfax’s plan to buy out BlackBerry, don’t worry — prospective investors seem in the dark as …
BlackBerry again aims at iOS, Android with new cloud service
As BlackBerry’s presence in the phone market begins to dissipate, the company has been exploring its options in mobile device management. It unveiled one of …
BlackBerry VP unloads in epic email thread with shareholder, analysts
BlackBerry VP of Developer Relations Alec Saunders hasn’t done a great job in his role. But to pop off like this in an email chain …
BlackBerry’s best chance may be in the boring – but profitable – world of corporate MDM
What’s often lost in all the gloom surrounding BlackBerry’s collapsing handset business is that the company is set up pretty well to become a more …
Google, Samsung and others reportedly considering BlackBerry bids
It looks like some companies just can’t pass up a bargain. Few seemed to show real interest in BlackBerry back when the future was still …
BlackBerry seen burning through its cash pile in just 18 months
How big of a bonfire can you make with a $2.6 billion cash pile? We may be about to find out. AllThingsD points us to …
Did BlackBerry ever really stand a chance against iOS and Android?
There’s no shortage of articles out there — some of which may have been posted on BGR from time to time — highlighting all the …
The bitterest pill: BlackBerry Z30 won’t be sold by Canada’s largest wireless carrier [updated]
It’s been an ugly year for BlackBerry so far and now it seems that the company can’t even count on one of its home country’s …
BlackBerry’s recent filing was so scary that Bernstein downgraded the stock 72 hours after upgrading it
Bernstein Research analyst Pierre Ferregu is known for his dramatic whiplashes — he was strongly optimistic about Nokia during its big dive and then turned deeply …
Leaving no stone unturned, BlackBerry ponders property sale
As struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry continues to look for outs, the company must explore every possibly avenue that might be helpful in raising cash. One …
BlackBerry layoffs to cost $400 million, quadrupling earlier estimates
BlackBerry’s cash reserves look set to take another hit. Bloomberg reports that BlackBerry said in a regulatory filing this week that laying off 4,500 workers …
BlackBerry filing shows that company is falling apart everywhere in the world
When BlackBerry 10 first rolled out, many believed that the platform could be successful even if it never caught on in the United States as long …
BlackBerry reportedly draws buyout interest from Cerberus and co-founder Lazaridis
With the Fairfax Holdings deal all but certain, BlackBerry is reportedly drawing interest from at least two other suitors, a potentially positive note that could …
BlackBerry’s death benefits will be paid out to Apple, Samsung
The BlackBerry story is far from over and regardless of whether or not the Fairfax buyout happens, the company will live on in one form …
BlackBerry: Where it all went wrong
It’s not just about the second-quarter earnings which showed a near $1 billion write-down for unsold BlackBerry Z10 phones. It’s not about the fact that …
Sprint unsure of whether it will still carry BlackBerry phones in stores
In a momentary reprieve from the gloom surrounding BlackBerry’s future, Sprint declared that it has not yet decided to stop carrying BlackBerry handsets. Sprint CFO …
Google looks to scoop up engineers in BlackBerry’s hometown
Former BlackBerry employees may want to get their résumés in order: Google is coming to town. Reuters reports that Google’s Motorola Mobility division is setting …
App developers refuse to give up on BlackBerry 10
BlackBerry is not in a good place right now, having just posted a billion-dollar loss for the second fiscal quarter. But there is some good …
Fairfax boss helped triple BlackBerry CEO Heins’ golden parachute this year
When it comes to golden parachutes, former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop may have nothing on BlackBerry chief Thorsten Heins. Reuters reports that BlackBerry’s board of …
BlackBerry’s Q2 earnings as ugly as expected
BlackBerry released its second-quarter earnings report on Friday and it’s just as bad as the company warned us it would be last week. On the …
Longtime manufacturing partner plans on ‘disengaging with BlackBerry’
In the latest depressing round of BlackBerry news, AllThingsD reports that longtime BlackBerry manufacturing partner Jabil Circuit is looking to end its relationship with the …
Chart shows how Android is more responsible for BlackBerry’s downfall than iPhone
The typical narrative surrounding BlackBerry’s current woes is that the company reacted far too slowly to the threat that the iPhone posed and thus planted …
Weak demand forces T-Mobile to bail on BlackBerry in stores
As BlackBerry fights for its life, the hits keep on coming. T-Mobile confirmed on Wednesday evening that it will stop carrying BlackBerry smartphones in its …
Fairfax’s BlackBerry bid seen stretching the ‘limits of M&A creativity’
Fairfax Financial’s $4.7 billion offer to take BlackBerry private is fairly unorthodox. In the first place, Fairfax made the offer public without raising anywhere close …
Fairfax offer may spark bidding war for BlackBerry patents
We may see a lot of action surrounding BlackBerry over the next 60 days while Fairfax Financial conducts its due diligence and while BlackBerry seeks …
