BlackBerry CEO: We’ll focus on enterprise, BBM in 2014
John Chen speaks to Bloomberg TV in may just 2011. each person have resolutions and issues we would prefer to work higher at in 2014, but there are few who’ve as tough a road beforehand as BlackBerry’s latest chief government officer, John Chen. Getting the ball rolling early on a Monday morning when many in the tech world are still on vacation if now not slowly meandering again into the office, Chen penned a memo for...
BlackBerry agrees to $4.7 billion buyout by Fairfax-led consortium
BlackBerry announced Monday it has agreed to a $4.7 billion buyout through a consortium of investors who plan to take the struggling Canadian smartphone maker private. The corporate mentioned in a observation that it has “signed a letter of intent agreement under which a consortium to be led by Fairfax financial Holdings limited has supplied to obtain the corporate topic to due diligence.” Fairfax, a Canadian agency headed...
BlackBerry World now contains over 130,000 BB10 apps
BlackBerry kicked off its developer convention BlackBerry Jam in Hong Kong on Thursday with a flurry of updates and announcements. Vice president for Developer relations, Alec Saunders, shared that the choice of BlackBerry 10 apps to be had in the BlackBerry World store now stood at 131,708, approximately seven months after the OS used to be launched. Saunders mentioned that at a similar stage of their lifestyles cycles, the...
BBM for Android and iOS downloaded 10 million times within 24 hours
After BlackBerry resumed the rollout of its standard messaging app, BBM or BlackBerry Messenger to Android and iOS users, it reported that the app has been downloaded over 10 million occasions by way of Android and iPhone customers, some of the perfect single-day openings for a mobile app up to now. Saying the milestone, BlackBerry introduced that BBM had additionally develop into the number 1 free app in iTunes App store in...
Purported pictures of BlackBerry A10 surface online
Seems like BlackBerry’s alleged subsequent flagship model, BlackBerry A10 codenamed Aristo, has made a look with purported images of the front panel of the instrument surfacing on-line. The image mentioned to be featuring the BlackBerry A10 together with a screenshot that reveals the Aristo codename and the instrument model (BlackBerry 10.2), from the device, has been leaked by using BGR. The picture shows a device with rounded...