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Investors Give RIM Breather From Year-Long Beating

Research In Motion’s brutalized stock won a welcome reprieve from investors today following the introduction of two new BlackBerrys — the Bold 9790 and Curve 9380. Seems the hardware, which runs the latest version of BlackBerry 7, is slick enough to convince some that RIM has a shot at reclaiming its dwindling share of the North American smartphone market.

The company’s shares are trading at $19.40 as I write this, after hitting $19.58. That’s more than a 6 percent spike.

Not bad considering they slipped below book value earlier this month and had been charting 52-week lows ever since. There’s still a long way to go if the company is to recover from the 69 percent plunge it has taken this year. But this is certainly a start.

Twitter’s Tanking

December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks

December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year

December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work