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Hey guys, let's see what we can do to make our stock price go down again. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/blackberry-buffs-up-security-with-anti-eavesdropping-acquisition/article19818840/ quote:“I want to make sure that we don’t get carried away and get ourselves into trouble again financially, but then again, we do need to invest in certain areas, if we want to compete in the future,” said Chen, a well regarded turnaround expert in the technology industry, who took the reins at BlackBerry some nine months ago. Stock went down 3.12% and its not even 10am yet.
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Nelson MandEULA posted:imagine working at the company they just bought. the utter desperation you're feeling right now. It looks like they already had a BB10 app so it looks like BBRY just bought them for the app. Maybe is was cheaper than actually paying them for the dev work. Now they can just fire all the employees and keep the app which is exactly what they've done with any startup they've purchased in the last 5 years.
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Jul 29, 2014 14:49
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Ford is dumping blackberry for iPhones http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...rticle19830820/
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Aug 1, 2014 02:18
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So the Canadian Government and South Western Ontario account for .5 of the cell phone market
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Aug 14, 2014 22:40
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BlackBerry smartphone shipments rise from previous quarter http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4761670-blackberry-smartphone-shipments-rise-from-previous-quarter/ quote:BlackBerry's smartphone shipments grew 15 per cent in the second quarter from the prior period, recording their first sequential gain in a year as chief executive officer John Chen's turnaround plan takes hold. Who are they shipping them too?
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Aug 15, 2014 17:23
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This is the most hosed up thing I've never seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw9LH_Dp2eM http://www.businessinsider.com/blackberry-passport-keyboard-video-2014-8 quote:The Passport comes with a physical keyboard that actually doubles as a touchpad, meaning you can swipe across the keys to interact with the device.
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Aug 15, 2014 22:15
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Nope. Still buying other companies http://www.theglobeandmail.com/tech...rticle20531197/
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Sep 11, 2014 19:33
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coming in 2017
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I live in Waterloo and work with several ex RIM employees. In 2005 it was an awesome company to work for and had all the perks you would expect a tech company to have. Once 2007 hit, things went south really bad. Every more you made was watched. You got 30 minutes for lunch and god help you if you were late. Most employees also were jaded because management changed every 6 months. You'd get a new manager who would be "We are going to do it THIS way" and then 6 months later he would go somewhere else and the new guy would be "Forget THIS! We are now doing it THAT way" . So no one really cared about performance because they knew it would just soon change anyway. Staff was thin. If you worked the (mandatory) grave yard shift, you were on your own. So if an Exchange admin called at 2am and it took you 3 hours to fix his issues, guess how long the others in the phone queue had to wait for someone to answer? When we have a new ex-RIM employee start, they have a bit of PTSD. Its like if you rescue and new cat and bring him home, he'll hide under the bed for a week. Slowly he'll realize that no one is going to care if he takes an extra smoke break, or steal his lunch from the fridge. They are hiring support positions again but they've pretty much poisoned the market. There are so many tech companies hiring here and no one wants to work at a place that just fired half the city. The only ones that are going back are people who are so lovely that they can't get hired anywhere else or are die hard fanboys.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:32
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LastInLine posted:all three of their major suppliers dumped them publicly they were jabil flextronics and celestica I thought foxcon was making them now
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Sep 20, 2014 15:16
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mishaq posted:lol hardware release 3 days before quarterly results $207 million lost http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/business/blackberry-reports-207m-us-loss-in-2nd-quarter-1.2778599
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Sep 26, 2014 13:44
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Wait until they fond out she's gay.
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Sep 26, 2014 21:09
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looks like they figured out supply and demand http://business.financialpost.com/2...__lsa=fda5-e2d9 quote:“I’m glad to have inventory issues. It shows that people want the phone,” said Chen, 59. “We took a very conservative approach and didn’t order too many.”
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Oct 20, 2014 18:33
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Here we go again. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/blackberry-shares-jump-on-rumour-of-lenovo-takeover-1.2805978?cmp=rss&utm
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Oct 20, 2014 23:36
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Thanks Ants posted:wasnt it rumoured that after the european blackberry infrastructure fell over they just left it all routing through north america because nobody really used the things anyway and all the people who knew how to fail everything back across had bailed years previously? Yes. Ask anyone in Waterloo and they will tell you that's where the European and Asia Pacific "NOC" is. When you start the hemorrhage money, it's easier to just host everything in one datacenter.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:42
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http://blogs.blackberry.com/2014/10/classic-john-chen/quote:BlackBerry is driven by an urgent, obsessive focus on what matters: you. When we lose sight of what you want and you need, we lose you. Just talked to some buddies I have that still work there. This is just the Q10 hardware (which is 2 years old) with a trackpad. I bet you anything they try to sell this for $600.
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Oct 29, 2014 16:45
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:I thought they got sued and stopped selling them http://www.theverge.com/mobile/2014/3/29/5560628/blackberry-wins-court-order-banning-sales-of-typo-iphone-keyboard-case Also they got really bad reviews
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Oct 29, 2014 19:09
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they made some deal with samsung to but BB security on future Galaxy phones I guess.
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infernal machines posted:basically yes. I know several ex bb employees that will confirm
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Nov 19, 2014 16:02
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I see Thorsten got a new job. http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/18/7240515/former-blackberry-ceo-thorsten-heins-now-leading-powermat Wonder why there isn't a BBry app yet? Looks like they had them before. http://crackberry.com/review-powermat-wireless-charging-system-blackberry-torch-9800-and-9810
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Nov 20, 2014 22:18
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Nelson MandEULA posted:do lizardlips and ballsack have new jobs? yep http://quantumvalleyinvestments.com/
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Nov 21, 2014 00:53
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BlackBerry will pay iPhone users up to $600 to switch phones http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/blackberry-will-pay-iphone-users-up-to-600-to-switch-phones-1.2848915 quote:BlackBerry is trying a new tactic to lure customers back — by paying them to switch phones. Didn't they get mad for T-Mobile for doing this but the other way around?
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Nov 25, 2014 15:06
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Kenny Logins posted:on the other hand is the blackberry passport, completely unusable with a single hand well he is Asian. I'm sure she is used to only using one hand.
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TOOLS NOT TOYS!! BlackBerry is playing the nostalgia card, announcing the re-release of its Brick Breaker game on the new Classic model. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitch..._medium=twitter Is anyone else hearing all this stuff about the Passport having some kind of breakthru medical app installed or have I just lived in Waterloo too long?
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If anyone is interested http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Municipality_of_Waterloo The big tech companies here (OpenText, RIM, Desire2Learn) were all started at the University of Waterloo. The school does have a very good engineering program and Silicon Valley actively recruits from there. But most students leave here and go back to China or India. The ones that stay usually want to settle and start a family.
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Dec 12, 2014 23:29
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lol they want $450 for that.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:the funny part is that she also has a wife and most of them don't, hence the anger
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Dec 17, 2014 19:55
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Bobby Digital posted:my little qwerty: blackberry is magic
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Dec 17, 2014 22:37
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BB fans like Joanna Stern again http://www.wsj.com/articles/blackberry-classic-review-the-best-blackberry-ever-made-1419355406
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Dec 23, 2014 23:52
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Guy that sits across from me used to work there. He just sold all his stock and made a few 100 bucks
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Mister Macys posted:the ontario teachers pension plan board. Don't they also have or had part ownership of the Leafs? I see a trend here.
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lol so are they going to make BBM for Tizen phones?
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Jan 22, 2015 19:14
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The Q10 was carrier locked so if you wanted Wind Mobile you were out of luck
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Jan 22, 2015 23:11
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Miley Virus posted:so the carriers would never let it happen on android I use google hangouts and Facebook messenger. Can't remember the last time I used SMS.
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The guy that says he can "Now travel without my laptop" is the owner (well, inherited form his father )of some Marketing firm here in Waterloo. I suppose I could travel without a laptop too if all I did was email my secretary to setup meetings and run reports. He call himself the Chief Enthusiasm Officer.
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I wonder if they are doing this poo poo now to cover their earnings loss http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/6/7991827/sec-investigating-blackberry-trades quote:Wall Street was pretty excited about the prospect of Samsung buying BlackBerry when Reuters reported talks between the two last month. The Canadian smartphone maker's stock surged to its biggest single-day gain in years, according to CNBC, only to come back down to Earth after both companies denied any acquisition deal was in the works. But now the US Securities and Exchange Commission (and its Canadian counterpart) are investigating suspicious trading activity that — perhaps too conveniently — coincided with the big rumor.
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Pretty much all of the former RIM buildings have been sold and I'm betting that all the new tenants will be iOS and Android app startups. http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5330883-wekerle-now-owns-six-former-blackberry-buildings-in-waterloo/ Also Huawei is coming to town so I expect whatever engineers are left will jump ship.
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Fun fact. The current mayor of Waterloo was an executive at RIM who was laid off in 2012 https://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejaworsky
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Santas Ainol Elf posted:waterloo sounds like a loving hellhole I've lived in worse places. This article sums up how in love the city is with RIM http://fusion.net/story/45438/the-life-death-and-rebirth-of-blackberrys-hometown/
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