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Who Wants a BlackBerry? Not Many of You

The penalty for being late -- really late -- to market is almost always more severe than a company wants to admit. Especially a company that had a firm grip ...
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U.K.’s BlackBerry Sales Could Be Soft

One sure sign that a new product is not living up to its expected results is a falling price. And that is what’s happening in the United Kingdom to the ...
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Former RIM Co-CEO Sells All RIM/BlackBerry Shares

BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) has gone through quite a lot of changes, including a name change from Research In Motion. What is interesting is that its former co-CEO Jim Balsillie is ...
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Dear BlackBerry: What Does “Best Day Ever” Really Mean?

BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) has just issued an odd press release via MarketWire on Wednesday. The claim is that BlackBerry's new phone launch was the best day ever in Canada. It also ...
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Analyst Shows Caution Right After BlackBerry 10 Launch

Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) has now debuted its very late release of the BlackBerry 10 operating system. While we have already seen releases that Verizon, Sprint and AT&T will ...
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BlackBerry Torch Phone (2012)

Research In Motion — After BlackBerry 10

In an interview with a German magazine over the weekend, the CEO of Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) said that a possible sale of the company’s hardware unit and ...
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Today’s Market Winners and Losers

The stock market is down Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.09%, the Nasdaq down 0.57% and the S&P 500 down 0.33%. Today's winners include a smartphone manufacturer ...
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Today’s Market Winners and Losers

The stock market is down Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.77%, the Nasdaq down 0.72% and the S&P 500 down 0.69%. Today's big winner was a smartphone ...
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BlackBerry Service Crashing Again

Almost exactly a year ago, Research In Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) experienced a network outage that lasted three days and affected users around the world. This morning the company is ...
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Android to Top Mobile Operating Systems, But Windows Will Outpace iOS by 2016 (GOOG, AAPL, MSFT, NOK, RIMM)

Growth in mobile phone shipments this year is expected to be about 4%, the lowest growth rate since 2009. That’s according to the latest global mobile phone tracking data from ...
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RIM Preparing for Layoffs (RIMM, AAPL, GOOG, SSNLF, NOK, MSFT)

Canadian-based smartphone maker Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is expected to fire about 2,000 employees as soon as the end of this week as the struggling company tries to ...
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Android Dominates Chinese Mobile Platform Market (GOOG, AAPL, NOK, MSFT, RIMM)

The Android smartphone operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) grabbed nearly 70% of sales in China during the fourth quarter of 2011 according to a new report from Chinese ...
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Maybe the Rich are Like You and Me (AAPL, GOOG, RIMM)

Wealthier smartphone owners are a lot like the rest of us, at least when it comes to apps downloaded to their smartphones. The wealthy’s favorite app is Facebook, followed closely ...
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Smartphones Now Total Half of US Mobile Phones (GOOG, AAPL, RIMM, NOK, MSFT)

Research firm Nielsen reports that 49.7% of US mobile phone subscribers owned smartphones at the end of February. In February of 2011, that number was just 36%. The leading operating ...
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iPhone — Cool, But Outta School? (AAPL, GOOG, RIMM, HP, MSFT, T)

Smartphone adoption in the US market has reached 35% of US adult mobile phone users, and 42% of all mobile phone owners. In Europe's five leading markets (France, Germany, Italy, ...
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