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New Low-Price Model?

CP | David Friend, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.13.2013 | Canada Business

ORLANDO, Fla. - BlackBerry will pull out all the stops this week as the company welcomes thousands of industry players for BlackBerry Live, it's annua...

BlackBerry CEO: The Tablet Will Be Dead In 5 Years

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.30.2013 | Canada Business

The tablet computer has no future, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins told Bloomberg in an interview. “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a r...

Ramping Down Production?

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.25.2013 | Canada Business

BlackBerry has probably reduced production of its new Z10 line of phones due to poor early sales, a U.S. analyst has said. The news from Wedge Part...

Nothing Unusual About Number Of Returns, Says Analyst

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.16.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - The new BlackBerry touchscreen smartphones are not being returned at an unusually high rate, despite suggestions to the contrary, according ...

BlackBerry Denies Smartphones Being Returned In Droves

CP | David Friend, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.12.2013 | Canada Business

BlackBerry is fighting back against what it says is a "false and misleading" analyst report that claims the company's new touchscreen smartphones are ...

Canada Gives Hundreds Of Millions To Spanish Telecom To Buy BlackBerrys

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.08.2013 | Canada Business

The government agency responsible for helping Canadian exporters find new markets has loaned $265 million to a giant Spanish telecom to buy BlackBerry...

Judge: BlackBerry Execs Incompetent, Not Fraudulent

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.02.2013 | Canada Business

A U.S. federal court judge in Manhattan has dismissed a class-action lawsuit against BlackBerry on the grounds that it was mismanagement, and not frau...

Heins: Many More BlackBerry Models On Their Way

CP | David Friend, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.29.2013 | Canada Business

WATERLOO, Ont. - BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins plans to unveil a broader array of new smartphones this year, catering to markets around th...

BlackBerry Shares Plummet As Phone Debuts In U.S.

CP | LuAnn LaSalle, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.22.2013 | Canada Business

UPDATE: BlackBerry shares fell steeply on Friday as the company launched its Z10 phone in the United States. Initial reports suggested there was a ...

BlackBerry CEO Disses iPhone, Says It’s Out Of Date

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 03.20.2013 | Canada Business

Thorsten Heins, the CEO of BlackBerry, has some carefully chosen but still harsh words about competitor Apple. Speaking to an Australian business m...

Who Just Bought 1 Million BlackBerrys?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.13.2013 | Canada Business

WATERLOO, Ont. - Shares of BlackBerry (TSX:BB) rose more than eight per cent on Wednesday after the company announced it has sold one million of its n...

New BlackBerry Outselling iPhone, Samsung: Retailer

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 02.26.2013 | Canada Business

The BlackBerry Z10 has been outselling Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy phones in Canada since it went on sale earlier this month, a major wire...

What do RIM, Arab Spring, Riots, Skype and Donkey Carts Have in Common?

Mike Rizkalla | Posted 04.24.2013 | Canada
Mike Rizkalla

On the heels of the successful launch of BlackBerry 10 and the re-boot and re-invention of the company, I can't help but think of the people that endu...

Bad News On BlackBerry Z10 Sales

CP | David Friend, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.21.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - Analysts are split on the future of BlackBerry and its prospects for sales success, as Canaccord Genuity pulled back its expectations for th...

Home Depot Move Hits BlackBerry Hard

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.13.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - Shares of BlackBerry (TSX:BB) dropped 4.5 per cent on Monday after retailer Home Depot confirmed that executives will receive Apple's iPhone...

Nova Scotia Gives BlackBerry A Boatload Of Money

CP | Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.09.2013 | Canada Business

HALIFAX - Tech giant BlackBerry (TSX:BB) will get $10 million over five years if it keeps at least 400 jobs in Nova Scotia, Premier Darrell Dexter ann...

No BlackBerry For You, Japan

CP | David Friend, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.10.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - BlackBerry (TSX:BB) says while it has plans to launch its new smartphones in several countries, Japan won't be one of them.The company, whic...

LIKE HOTCAKES

CP | David Friend, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.08.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - BlackBerry says it is smashing its own sales records with the launch of its new smartphones, but just how many devices it has sold is still ...

The Next BlackBerry Has Landed

CP | David Friend, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.06.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - While the new BlackBerry only landed in Canadian stores on Tuesday and there weren't lineups around the block, telecom carriers were already...

Reason To Smile

CP | David Friend, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.06.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - The launch of the new BlackBerry smartphone is getting off to a better start than some had predicted.At least two analysts have weighed in w...

New BlackBerrys Sell For Thousands On eBay

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 02.05.2013 | Canada Business

The BlackBerry Z10 comes out in Canada on Tuesday, Feb. 5., but U.S. customers will have to wait at until mid-March before the smartphones appear in s...

WATCH: BlackBerry Super Bowl Commercial: Is Ad A Game Changer?

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 02.05.2013 | Canada Business

It might be the most important 30 seconds in the advertising history of BlackBerry, Canada's smartphone maker. The spot that aired during Super Bowl ...

BlackBerry Wins Big On The Buzz Meter

CP | Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.02.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - If a product's value was measured in online buzz, the latest incarnation of the BlackBerry would be priceless.The Internet was all of a twit...

First Impressions Of The Z10

CP | Michael Oliveira, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.01.2013 | Canada Business

TORONTO - For BlackBerry fans who have been desperately hoping that Research in Motion would get its act together and once again deliver a smartphone ...

Alicia Keys Named BlackBerry's Gobal Creative Director

Huffington Post Music Canada | Joshua Ostroff | Posted 01.30.2013 | Canada Music

Alicia Keys is apparently in a BlackBerry state of mind. The R&B superstar was just announced as the "global creative director" of the Canadian te...