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JP Morgan Expects BlackBerry Revenue To 'Bottom' This Quarter, Adjusts Estimates
Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 8:15am | 266In a report published Thursday, JP Morgan analyst Rod Hall explained why he thinks BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY) will post another sequential decline in services revenue when it reports its fourth quarter results on Friday before market open. Hall cited the company's CFO James Yersh who...
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BlackBerry To Rely On Android For Future Success
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 5:23pm | 379BlackBerry's (NASDAQ: BBRY) new strategy includes a venture with numerous Android smartphone manufacturers. Instead of trying to sell its most popular features to consumers through the sale of BB10-specific handsets, the company will soon pre-load its messaging application on other manufacturers'...
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A Non-Public Blackberry Would Likely Find Interesting Investors (BBRY)
Monday, August 12, 2013 - 9:16am | 507News has swirled of late that the BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY)’s Board of Directors may be open to taking the public private and according to anonymous sources that spoke to Reuters, this might be the best option for the ailing company. The argument, in summation, is that although the company...
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Blackberry To Lay Off Another 250 Employees (BBRY)
Friday, July 26, 2013 - 8:40am | 538In another sign that Blackberry (NASDAQ: BBRY)’s trouble are worsening, the company announced Thursday that it was laying off an additional 250 employees. This will bring total layoffs to more than 5,000 in the past fiscal year. Blackberry spokesman Alex Kinsella told AllThingsD, “These...
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Did BlackBerry Secretly Beat Estimates and Steal iPhone Customers?
Friday, March 1, 2013 - 1:45pm | 487For the past several months, BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) loyalists have insisted that the new operating system, BB10, would soar at retail. They supported the investor community, which helped raise BlackBerry's share price by more than 99 percent over the last six months. Their hopes and dreams...
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BlackBerry 10 Debut Bombs, Lacks Key Features to Beat Apple's iPhone
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 2:08pm | 969Over the past few months, media attention has shifted from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM). The assumption was that RIM could make a comeback and turn BlackBerry 10 into the next great mobile OS. With RIM shares now trading down well over 5 percent on Wednesday, it seems...
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Five Things BlackBerry 10 Needs to Beat Apple's iPhone
Sunday, January 13, 2013 - 3:05pm | 937Investors love to fulfill their own prophecies. In 2011, they believed in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), bought into the company's story and turned it into one of the most successful stocks of the year. In 2012, they expressed doubt and abandoned the stock even as new Apple products continued to break sales...
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Research In Motion Preview: More Losses, Fewer Surprises
Thursday, December 20, 2012 - 12:32pm | 471BlackBerry 10 is roughly one month away from release. Before then, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) must reveal how it has performed in a quarter where its most recent products include a 4G PlayBook and smartphones that have been out for a year. Despite the lack of fresh releases, RIM has nearly...