Blackberry has admittedly not been having a good run, it had to abandon their OS to try their luck with Android through the Blackberry Priv. The company has continued its efforts to save the brand and it lead them to licensing the Blackberry name to TCL, the parent company of ...
BlackBerry has licensed its security software and service suite, as well as related brand assets to TCL Communication who will design, manufacture, sell and provide customer support for BlackBerry-branded mobile devices. The move will allow BlackBerry to develop its security and software solutions, serve its customers and maintain trusted BlackBerry ...
Just when we thought BlackBerry was off the shelves, the firm amazed everyone by its recent launch of the BlackBerry® Passport, a touch screen and new QWERTY touch-enabled smartphone. John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO at BlackBerry said, “The BlackBerry Passport was created to drive productivity and to break through ...
Third largest U.S carrier will no longer sell Blackberry phones after April 25 after an ugly war of words over marketing snafu. It all started out as a war of words has eventually resulted to a permanent separation between the two companies having the technology company not to renew T-Mobile’s ...
Until BlackBerry is on a solid financial footing, John Chen formally interim CEO appears to be settling fully into the role for long term. This follows Fairfax’s $250 million injection into the company in the form of a debt purchase. The firm’s largest shareholder is showing increased confidence in the ...
J.T Wang (Image-Bloomberg) Acer Chairman and CEO, J.T. Wang has resigned after the company made an operating loss of over $86 million for Q3, JT Wang's resignation comes just hours after BlackBerry's CEO Thorsten Heins was asked to step down. Though Wang shall remain in chairmanship until ...
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited and other institutional investors have invested U.S. $1 billion into BlackBerry in a revised investment proposal than Fairfax's earlier plan of buying and taking it private. The firm has also fired Thorsten Heins as CEO and has appointed John Chen as interim CEO and the Executive Director ...
Android OS hit a record 81 percent of the 251 million smartphones shipped in Q3 of 2013 beating Apple, BlackBerry and Windows. However, Microsoft's Windows Phone is growing steadily with 10 million smartphones shipped during the period doubling its marketshare and making it the world's fastest growing major smartphone platform. ...
Troubled Canadian Smartphone maker, BlackBerry®, is set to be acquired by Fairfax Financial for $4.7 billion a deal that will see the company go private. BlackBerry® Limited announced in an official statement that it had “signed a letter of intent agreement under which a consortium to be led by Fairfax ...
Burdened Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry is considering a buy out or enter a possible joint venture, strategic partnership or alliance as it continues to count its woes. The firm has already formed a special committee to review the firm's future. The firm's announcement follows a Reuters report that its was ...
Image:Techdrivein.com A new report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that Android had a 75 percent lead in smartphone phone OS of all the smartphone shipments in Q3 worldwide. The IDC report claims the Android smartphone operating system was among three in the four ...
