Apple's iMessage Spurs Death Of BlackBerry by a Thousand Cuts, Says Wall Street
13/06/2011 |
The bleeding just won’t stop for BlackBerry-maker RIM. A half-dozen Wall Street analysts are cutting the share’s target prices amid concern the Canadian company is in free-fall and Apple’s iMessage just cut the emergency parachute.
A large Canadian investment firm over the weekend called on the Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM to change leadership, separating the CEO and Chairman positions now co-held by Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. The move followed news RIM stock has fallen...
Apple Grabs No. 2 Spot from RIM for U.S. Smartphone Sales
Photo by rudolf_schuba - http://flic.kr/p/2Dr3pbIt’s now a two-way race for control of the U.S. smartphone market and long-time No. 2 player Research in Motion finds itself being lapped by Apple.The iPhone maker took second place during the May quarter, iOS increasing its share to 26.6 perc...
When it comes to smartphone loyalty, Apple's iPhone wins
According to Gfk’s recent survey, iPhone users remain the most satisfied and claim they’ll stick with their iPhones instead of jumping ship to another smartphone platform. Out of all the users surveyed, only 25% of them plan to stay loyal to their current smartphone platform while 56%...
Punched To Death By iPhone, iPad And iMessages, RIM Announces Layoffs
It’s been a bad year for RIM so far. Their BlackBerry business has been harried on all sides by the iPhone, and their stock has delated largely thanks to the arterial spray of customers they are losing to Apple.Worse, in response to the iPad, RIM released the much heralded BlackBerry Playb...
Analyst: RIM Should Spin-Off BlackBerry, Promote 'New Blood'
BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion needs to remake itself, pumping new blood into aging corporate thinking by spinning-off its handset and network divisions, one analyst reasons. “RIM’s end-to-end solution was conceived when data devices and networks were nascent — but times h...
RIM Developers Jump Sinking Ship for Apple: "Blackberry Isn't Even An Option"
Photo by ~ l i t t l e F I R E ~ - http://flic.kr/p/8RoCRMAll that’s left for BlackBerry-maker RIM is to rearrange the deck chairs. After losing its smartphone market, its smartphone subscribers, and Wall Street, the Waterloo, Ontario handset company now sees its developers manning the life...
Apple part of $4.5 billion Nortel patent acquisition, Google not
According to Reuters, a consortium of tech companies, including Apple, BlackBerry maker RIM, Microsoft, EMC, Sony, and Ericsson have won the auction to acquire Nortel’s mammoth $4.5 billion dollar mobile patent portfolio. How much of that will come from Apple is currently unknown, though RI...
iPad Takes 96% of Tablets Activated in Enterprise, iPhone Takes 53%
Apple may appear to be the biggest tablet vendor on the planet with the company selling iPads hand over fist, but it seems that end-users are not the only ones taking a shine to the tablet.According to new figures from enterprise mobile services vendor Good Technology, the iPad made up 96% of the...
Apple Invades RIM's Home Turf with Waterloo Retail Store
Apple already has around 20 stores in Canada, the latest will open Aug. 13 in Waterloo, Ontario hometown of beleaguered BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. As RIM’s fortunes decline and Apple’s ascends, the store becomes a metaphor for the long-running battle between the smartphone f...
RIM Becoming Too Radioactive to Takeover
Photo by Leo Reynolds - http://flic.kr/p/7eAGUaNuked by both Apple and Android, RIM now finds itself too radioactive to even be bought. It’s a Hiroshima-like shadow of Wall Street, not capable of being touched.Once worth $83 billion, the Waterloo, Ontario BlackBerry maker has slid to around...
It's Official: There Are More iPhones Than BlackBerrys (But Android Still Dominates) [Apple]
Smartphones are finally outselling dumbphones, but not everyone's a winner. ComScore's latest numbers show that still aren't looking good for RIM.More »
