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RIM's decision to hold for years before bringing in a new CEO. He saw there being no option for an outside CEO until RIM had groomed one from the inside, with outsiders being "morons from the outside" who would inevitably gut the BlackBerry designer. ...
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We've been in the business oriented side for so long, we can't seem to break out of the "minuscule update every few years" cycle. We were wrong. Terribly wrong about what people want. What the hll is he talking about? "Martin went so far as to liken...
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Jaguar Financial Corporation President and CEO Vic Alboini poses for a portrait in Toronto January 24, 2012. RIM's co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the men who engineered RIM's rise, resigned on Saturday after intense investor pressure. ... View Photo »
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RIM is committed to supporting the advancement of NFC and its many applications in the market ... We have a strong partnership with Telefónica Group and we are very proud to participate in this important pilot, which allows people to use their BlackBerry smartphone in place of separate physical cards fo...
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Which is yet another instance of RIM being unable to face the possibility that it’s lost its ability to build devices that the savviest businessfolk and consumers will crave. Along with Lazaridis, Balsillie, and new CEO Thorsten Heins, Martin is a RIM...
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Martin said to the newspaper, highlighting other high-profile CEOs drafted in to save electronics companies like Dell, HP and – back when Steve Jobs was away from the helm – Apple, but who proved far from able to rise the challenge. Despite being...
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Anyone who regularly reads tech sites these days ought to know just how much apple invests in controlling journalists / bloggers. AppleFUD on blackberrycool.com Time is short for RIM. If they don't make a surge this year, analysts get pessimistic. ...
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Jaguar Financial Corporation President and CEO Vic Alboini is reflected in the screen of his Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Bold cell phone in Toronto January 24, 2012. RIM's co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the men who engineered RIM's... View Photo »
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Just because we don’t have a team (in Toronto) or we didn’t agree to Jim Balsillie hijacking a team in Phoenix and moving it into Hamilton, that means the Leafs have a veto? Two plus two doesn’t equal three
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Because apparently the only options facing RIM as it began losing market share to Apple's iPhone and smartphones powered by Google's Android OS were: Continue to be led by co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis -- a genius! Martin's quotes are...
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"Or should we try to build our way to having succession?" Obviously, RIM has chosen the latter path. Martin said that Heins didn't really become visible to the CEOs and the board of directors until last fall--and that it was Lazaridis' and Balsillie's...
About James Balsillie
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James Laurence "Jim" Balsillie (born February 3, 1961) is a Canadian businessman and co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission. Full Article
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