Podcast - 25th September 2013
There are big changes on the horizon at BlackBerry. We talk about the company's potential future and also look at the recent tablet announcements from Microsoft and Tesco... plus the rest of the week's mobile news.
There's also a special report from IAB2013 about the sometimes awkward relationship between mobile devices and the television industry.
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BlackBerry has signed a ‘letter of intent’ agreement that could see a consortium led by Canadian shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited acquiring the company.
Fairfax, which currently owns around 10% of BlackBerry shares, would pay around $4.7 billion (£2.9 billion) for the remainder of the business.
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Black days for BlackBerry
Mark Bridge writes:
There are bad weeks... and there are BAD weeks. Blackberry had one of the latter. It all started so well. The company announced a new flagship phablet – the Z30 – and said it would be launching its BBM instant messaging service for iOS and Android handsets at the weekend.
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Yesterday BlackBerry announced its preliminary quarterly results and also provided an update on its plans for the business.
It says it’s expecting to make a loss of between $950 million to $995 million (up to £621 million) in the past quarter, with most of this value being written-off due to poor sales of the Z10 smartphone.
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BlackBerry’s BBM instant messaging service will be available to Android and iPhone users from the weekend.
The free application, which was previously only available on BlackBerry devices, will be launched via Google Play on Saturday and the Apple App Store on Sunday.
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