Blackberry abandons sale process, CEO out

[ikachu]

Hmm :/ Not great news for BB fans...

Yahoo finance link

 

[cbrunny]

Google should buy it. Amalgamate BBM & hangouts, and migrate the 60 million BBM users into Google+.

Google+ is way better than Facebook...just needs more people. The only thing keeping users on Facebook is that users are already on Facebook. It got there first.

 

[ilkhan]

Hmm :/ Not great news for BB fans...

Yahoo finance link

Didn't know there were any BB fans left.

 

[Oyeve]

Hmm :/ Not great news for BB fans...

Yahoo finance link

Yeah, all 5 of them.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Chen said he'll be looking for a CEO with a software background. He noted that BlackBerry Messenger, the popular messaging application, has been downloaded by over 20 million users since it became available on Google's Android and Apple's IOS platforms.

"I'd like to find somebody to help me monetize that," Chen said.

Like freaking two years too late.

 

[s44]

Like freaking two years too late.

To be fair, that was Balsillie's plan years ago before Lazaridis (and Heins) killed it and forced him out.

 

[dainthomas]

Like freaking two years too late.

I've been using BBM on my Optimus G for a week now and it works great. If they could just tweak it so I could run it on multiple devices it would be perfect.

Probably won't happen now though.

 

[Ravynmagi]

Like freaking two years too late.

Yeah, feels like it's even too late for BBM at this point. Sure a lot of people have downloaded it, but I really don't think very many will actually use it now.

Blackberry is a couple years late doing everything.

 

[RossMAN]

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