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	BlackBerry Still Doesn't Get It: Bringing Back The Slider Phone
	For reasons unknown, BlackBerry subscribes to the 'being-different-from-the-rest' surely means success. So now they are bringing back the classic slider smarphone. Because absolutely no one will buy this and that's probably what BlackBerry wants. Th...
	BlackBerry Has Lost Their Minds: Bringing Back the Bold
	Stop the madness. BlackBerry wants to continue living in 2011, They are bringing back the Bold instead of working on the next big thing. After continued losses this quarter, BlackBerry is apparently banking on nostalgia to win back fans. It'll i...
	BlackBerry CEO Would Definitely Sell BBM for $19 Billion. But Who Wouldn't?
	It's a shame Facebook didn't approach BlackBerry with that $19 billion offer, because BlackBerry's CEO John Chen said he would totally sell BBM for $19 billion. "I work for the shareholder," John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry, said in an interview with CN...
	BlackBerry's Plan is to Go Back to Hardware Keyboards. Will That Make Them Relevant Again?
	BlackBerry has been in trouble for a while already, and its best solution to get it out of its slump is decidedly low-tech. In an interview with Re/Code this week, BlackBerry CEO John Chen said that the struggling smartphone company’s plan to turn t...
	Would You Use BlackBerry if It Ran Android?
	John Chen must have a plan so good he's willing to stay on a sinking ship. Right? That must be it. At this point, most people would probably say that BlackBerry's BB 10 relaunch was a disaster. Now, the company is allowing Google's Play Store for An...
	BlackBerry Is Not Sparing Any Expense. New CEO Scores $88M Compensation Package
	BlackBerry may be struggling to stay afloat, but that doesn't mean they're not willing to spend on their new CEO John Chen. They are giving him a compensation package currently worth $88 million.Chen will receive a salary of $1 million plus a perfor...
	BlackBerry Replaces CEO, Decides Not to Sell
	Are they selling or not? The company has decided not to sell itself and is instead raising $1 billion and replacing CEO Thorsten Heins with John S. Chen. Chen was the previous CEO of SAP company Sybase. The troubled company had until November 4 to a...
	BBM for iOS, Android Downloaded 5 Million Times in 8 Hours
	Think no one is interested in BBM? Think again. The app released by BlackBerry has been downloaded way too many times than you can imagine. According to the official BBM Twitter account (via 9to5Mac), more than 5 million people have downloaded BBM f...
	Lenovo is Interested in Buying Parts of BlackBerry
	Lenovo might be interested in snapping up BlackBerry. At least, parts of it, according to Reuters. The report on Thursday night is a tad different from the earlier Wall Street Journal article that stated Lenovo was considering a bid for the whole co...
	Someone Is Going To Buy BlackBerry For $4.7 Billion
	BlackBerry is going to be acquired by Fairfax Financial Holdings for $4.7 billion. The financial holdings conglomerate has agreed to pay $9 per share for the mobile company. Their shares were trading at $8.23 per share before a freeze was initiated....