
Founder and former co-CEO of BlackBerry, Mike Lazaridis, has indicated interest in buying the beleaguered smartphone maker. Lazaridis has increased his stake in the company from 5.7% to 8% this year. According to a security filing, Lazaridis has asked Goldman Sachs and Centerview Partners to review his stake and a possible bid. BlackBerry is currently […]
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RIM co-chief Mike Lazaridis in the video below personally apologized for the still recovering BlackBerry service outage. The company was “working tirelessly” to get back users’ faith, he said. He wanted to give a repair time but couldn’t, and he acknowledged that the company should have done better. “You expect better from us, and I […]
Oct 13 2011 | Posted in
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RIM’s co-founders faced a minor investor mutiny on Friday after a shareholder group, Northwest & Ethical Investments, called on the company to decouple the roles of chairman and CEO per a Reuters report. A filing revealed that it had asked for co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis to no longer automatically assume board chairman roles […]
Jun 12 2011 | Posted in
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