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Last month, we all had a small chuckle when rumors started to fly that Samsung was in talks to buy BlackBerry – rumors that were debunked within the same day. Interestingly, the rumors sparked a huge bounce in BlackBerry’s stock value – after which it fell pretty hard to more realistic levels. As it turns out, regulators in … [Read more...]
Yesterday, stock for BlackBerry saw a pretty huge bounce – and then a pretty huge drop – as rumors circulated that Samsung was interested in a reported $7.5 billion acquisition. At around 4 p.m. Eastern yesterday, BlackBerry’s stock jumped up by over 29 percent, Business Insider reports, as talk of the acquisition … [Read more...]
Today, Reuters reports that BlackBerry CEO John Chen sent a memo out to his employees last week to let them know that the company’s dark period is, hopefully, coming to a close. After a three year process of restructuring, that included a 60 percent reduction in workforce, BlackBerry will begin hiring new employees, … [Read more...]
Nearly four months after filing a lawsuit against Typo, the company funded in part by television personality Ryan Seacrest, for patent infringement, BlackBerry has managed to secure an injunction successfully stopping the sale of Typo's one and only product currently on the market, the iPhone case of the same name. Typo's … [Read more...]
"The focus is going to be very keyboard centric," BlackBerry CEO John Chen told Reuters in a new interview published today. For over a year now, BlackBerry has been trying to push consumers smartphones that have looked and felt more like an Apple iPhone or your average Android device than a traditional BlackBerry devices of … [Read more...]
Mere days after a private beta build of an upcoming version of the upcoming BlackBerry 10.3 update leaked onto the web, BlackBerry CEO John Chen has posted a rather angry blog post on the official BlackBerry blog swearing revenge on individuals who "falsely posed" as an employee of a BlackBerry partner in order to "obtain … [Read more...]
A previously unheard of BlackBerry 10.3 Beta build has just leaked onto the web, giving us a sneak peak at some of the changes that the company formerly known as RIM has in store for us for 2014. While there's not too terribly much new here - this is still very much the same Blackberry 10 we've come to know and, well, … [Read more...]
The bad news keeps coming in for former smartphone giant BlackBerry. You may recall that T-Mobile has been running a high value trade-in promo, encouraging BlackBerry users to trade-in their old and busted phones for $200 towards a new smartphone. The promotion appears to be going over remarkably well for our favorite … [Read more...]
Poor BlackBerry. After seeing just about no success with the flagship BlackBerry Z10, an absolutely disastrous launch of the QWERTY BlackBerry Q10, and no further luck with the BlackBerry Z30, to say the company's portfolio of BlackBerry 10 powered smartphones have gotten off on a rocky start would be just about the … [Read more...]
What's up with WhatsApp? Well, besides the mega $16 billion purchase by Facebook announced last week, the popular messaging service announced it will add voice calls later this year. WhatsApp announced during a Mobile World Congress event today that it would be adding voice services to iOS and Android during the second … [Read more...]
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