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John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 26, 2013 at 1:14 pm PT
Evidently some folks really did believe BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis was going to swoop in like a deus ex machina and return the dilapidated smartphone pioneer to its former glory. Shares in the sadly diminished company closed down nearly nine percent at $7.05 on the revelation that Lazaridis has abandoned his, let’s face it, largely fantastical bid for the company, and reduced his combined stake with co-founder Doug Fregin to below five percent from eight percent.
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Ben Dummett, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on December 25, 2013 at 12:10 pm PT
BlackBerry Ltd. co-founder Michael Lazaridis disclosed in a regulatory filing Tuesday he cut his combined stake with another company co-founder in the smartphone maker to just under five percent.
Kara Swisher in Media on December 23, 2013 at 1:56 pm PT
When you wish upon a tech star … (I couldn’t resist, Iger!)
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Will Connors, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on December 23, 2013 at 1:04 pm PT
A small item from BlackBerry’s earnings-related filing Friday got lost in the news of its hardware partnership with Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group–sales of its new phones have been so bad that BlackBerry was forced to cancel the rollout of two not-yet-released phones.
Ina Fried in Mobile on December 19, 2013 at 10:10 am PT
The struggling device maker should focus on producing an affordable, keyboard-equipped phone for the global mass market, says Wedge Partners principal Brian Blair.
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Ina Fried in Mobile on December 18, 2013 at 9:10 am PT
Struggling phone maker BlackBerry said on Wednesday that its BBM instant messaging software will soon come preloaded on a phone from Korea’s LG Electronics. BlackBerry, which recently made BBM freely available for iOS and Android, said that the software will also come preinstalled on the LG G Pro Lite phone in various markets around the world.
Eric Johnson in General on December 7, 2013 at 2:00 pm PT
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