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  1. Apr 14, 2024 · Marguerita Cheng. BlackBerry Limited ( BB ), known as Research in Motion (RIM) until January 2013, has a long history of extreme success and failure. It’s credited by many as creating the first ...

  2. Oct 1, 2013 · The Globe and Mail says new chief executive Thorsten Heins’s decision to kill SMS 2.0, backed by Mr Laziridis, and concentrate on BlackBerry 10 was the reason Mr Balsillie eventually quit the ...

  3. Sep 30, 2016 · Success, as BlackBerry had a decade ago, breeds two interrelated negatives: conservatism and complacency. At the time of the iPhone and Android’s arrival, the whole mobile industry was on the ...

  4. Feb 1, 2018 · Over the ensuing decade, the BlackBerry became the device of choice in corporate America due to its enterprise-level security and business functionality. Even after the competitive entry of the iPhone in 2007 and Google’s Android OS in 2008, BlackBerry was certainly not destined for failure.

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  6. Oct 15, 2023 · The BlackBerry was instrumental in changing the way that humans worked. Owning a BlackBerry – and, really, owning any smartphone subsequently – meant that you didn’t have to be stuck at a ...

  7. Aug 12, 2013 · August 12, 2013. Shares in the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones peaked in August of 2007, at two hundred and thirty-six dollars. In retrospect, the company was facing an inflection point ...

  8. Jun 1, 2017 · The launch of BlackBerry by Research in Motion (RIM) in 1999 laid the foundation for the development of smartphones. The next decade was a period of spectacular growth for RIM, making its two co-CEOs billionaires. At the end of 2007 the company had a market capitalization of more than $60 billion. Sales peaked at almost $20 billion in 2011. In 2016, sales were $2.2 billion and the company had ...

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