John Chen, the CEO of former Canadian tech darling BlackBerry, announced his retirement yesterday, effective November 4, 2023. Chen, who took the helm of the company in November 2013, cited the stabilization of BlackBerry's future as the reason for his departure. In a letter on Tuesday, Chen says he was coaxed out of retirement in...
IFC Films has released its first trailer for its upcoming film drama, BlackBerry, which documents the rise and fall of Waterloo’s Research in Motion (RIM) and its ubiquitous smartphone that dominated before the iPhone and Android debuted. The BlackBerry film describes itself as “the “true story” of the meteoric rise & catastrophic demise of the...
The movie will detail the rise and fall of BlackBerry's Canadian parent company Research in Motion that eventually lost its market to Apple and Samsung.
BlackBerry has sold a number of its IP patents to Huawei. A new report from The Globe and Mail explains that BlackBerry has sold 90 patents to controversial Chinese tech giant Huawei as part of a larger effort by the Canadian smartphone pioneer to offload most of its intellectual property. According to the US Patent...
