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Testing 1 2 ... uh... 7?23-Sep-13 10:51
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NewsBlackberry agrees preliminary deal to be sold to Fairfax Pin
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Ron Beyer23-Sep-13 9:51
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Fairfax is already the largest shareholder of BB stock, so they only pay on whatever the outstanding market shares are aside from what they hold.

In reality, this should be titled "Fairfax purchases $4.7B of failing tech in an attempt to mitigate losses". That's about what they are really doing, since they are the largest shareholder they stand to lose about that much as the stock plummets. Purchasing the company and taking it private will stop-gap the bleed, but in the end unless they have a solid plan to save the company (aside from offer 2 "high end" and 2 "entry level" phones, all they are doing is postponing the inevitable.

BB was big when people had business phones and personal phones, but now that they are mostly one and the same with employers opting to reimburse employees for usage rather than make them carry around second devices BB is falling behind because it really doesn't have many recreational uses. What they should really do is adopt Android or Windows for the new devices and jump back into the market as a new HTC, and stop trying to pigeon hole users into something that really doesn't have many third-party developers making the experience fluid (aka, new apps).
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