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Even though Prem Watsa is confident his company’s deal goes through for the takeover of BlackBerry, Bloomberg is reporting that BlackBerry has “warmed up” to the idea of a company breakup. Now why would BlackBerry be interested in a breakup? They […]
BlackBerry announced a few weeks ago that they will reduce the number of employees by cutting approximately 4,500 jobs by end of Q1 Fiscal 2015 as part of their restructuring plans. Today it has been confirmed that the layoff process has begun […]
Globe and Mail recently made headlines with one of their articles titled, “Inside the fall of BlackBerry: How the smartphone inventor failed to adapt“, this article was a deeply researched article with inside information regarding such a private company that […]
As BlackBerry is doing their due diligence for finding another bidder or like most would say “shopping around”, Prem Watsa has stated a number of times he is confident his company’s bid will succeed, while we are not totally sure what […]
Prem Watsa is very confident that his company’s $4.7 billion dollar bid for BlackBerry will succeed. BlackBerry has up until November 4th to shop for another sale, a higher bid. While Prem’s company Fairfax owns a %10 stake in BlackBerry […]
Could we be seeing former BlackBerry Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis make a bid for BlackBerry? Seems like there have been talks according to the WSJ that the former Co-CEO has been in contact with private-equity firms about a possible joint bid for […]