BlackBerry Founders May Try To Take Over the Company

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 11, 2013 @12:52AM from the they-want-to-add-a-second-physical-keyboard dept.

New submitter Adamsobert sends this excerpt from the NY Times: "In a regulatory filing on Thursday, Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin said that they were considering a bid for the 92 percent of the company that they do not own. ... Their potential bid joins a growing list of expressions of interest in the company, which recently reported a $1 billion quarterly loss caused by the market's rejection of new smartphones that were supposed to revive BlackBerry's prominence. Fairfax Financial Holdings of Toronto has made a conditional, nonbinding offer to buy the 90 percent of BlackBerry shares it does not own for $9 each. That would value the company at about $4.7 billion."

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Re: Haha fail by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-11 03:17 · Score: 0, Troll

Yep, it's the play that Samsung made and they've made out like bandits.
Hey! Didn't you hear that Apple's going to say something in a couple weeks? APPLE! Going to SAY SOMETHING! There are THINGS that will be spoken by SOMEONE AT APPLE!!! In just A COUPLE WEEKS!!!! You should be working yourself into a masturbatory frenzy checking rumor sites or something! Stop wasting time in this thread, you've got some fanboyish drooling to do! Get back to work, acolyte! The Saint Jobs iCloning Project won't fund ITSELF, you know!