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Research In Motion To Be Sold, Possibly To Samsung
New submitter ve6ay writes "The talk of the tech world over the past day is that RIM, struggling mightily in these last months, was in talks to be bought either partially or wholly by Samsung. Sources at the Boy Genius Report indicate that while RIM may be trying to sell, it is asking way too much for itself."
SOPA blackout would have saved Soulskill some embarrassment.
RIM joins a long range of former tech prom queens and class presidents that did not make it:
Palm, altavista, NeXT, digg, motorola, SGI, Sun, Spice Girls.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
He would probably post it tomorrow anyway.
According to Slashdot's dupe policy, he is obligated to.
there might be a recruitment company cold calling for RIM jobs.
So, it's a pump-n-dump RIM job.
Um, rim shot.
And to think, it was not too long ago that a Blackberry was "the phone to own".
Now it's the phone to get 0wned!
-- Home is where you eat your heart out.
RIM should try HP, they're suckers for stuff like this
"...and yet, I blame society" Duke - Repo Man
I prefer this:
1. Wait until RIM shares get boost.
2. Buy RIM puts.
3. Wait until RIM rumors disproved.
4. Sell RIM puts, i.e. profit!
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
I believe RIM is a formerly amazing company suffering from an advanced and fatal case of MBA.
I always heard that RIM was serious in to business culture. When the company does implode, I bet we'll find that the entire organization was pretty much completely comprised of various levels of middle managers and executives, with very few people getting actual work done.
RIM's products have severely stagnated and their new OS efforts are pretty much going nowhere. Worse, they can't even seem to port their core messaging functions their new QNX based platform.
I think that somewhere they fired the core of their technical employees and knowledge workers. I think they've lost too many key assets, and now they're stuck rehashing and re skinning old software on crappy hardware because no one can make it work and some army of bean counters won't pay for serious hardware development. Something is very very rotten in RIM development land.
I would not be surprised to find that the a lot of the blackberry core messaging functions are implemented in a mysterious binary blob that nobody has the source for anymore.. And that their efforts to implement an emulator/API that works with their new QNX platform have so far failed.That's the only excuse I can imagine for the level of crap coming out of RIM lately.
[activate foil hat] But that's exactly what they would say, isn't it?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."