BlackBerry for Sale: Reasons it Went Wrong

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	BlackBerry for Sale: Reasons it Went Wrong BlackBerry has announced that it is has essentially put itself up for sale. So where did it all go wrong for Canadian firm which was once a leader in the mobile industry? Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Bringing Business Up to Speed Are your mainframe and UNIX applications keeping pace with your mission to drive agility and capitalize on opportunities such as cloud, mobility, and big data? A recent study reveals that most IT leaders have already completed modernizing enterprise applications in the hopes of fulfilling such goals. Read this paper to jumpstart your own efforts. Read now! In this Issue BlackBerry's Bleak Options: Will Suitors Really Pay for a Wedding? Not Even a New Owner Would Boost BlackBerry's Smartphone Share BlackBerry Turns to 7 OS with Social Networking Features for New 9720 Smartphone Photos of BlackBerry Z30 Emerge Amid Difficult Times for Smartphone Maker BlackBerry Starts Looking for Buyer or Partner as New OS Struggles WHITE PAPER: Windstream Public, Private and Hybrid: A Cloud for Every Business Need A single type of cloud may not be the best way to proceed. Each type of cloud has unique benefits. While some individual applications are best suited to one type of cloud or another, most organizations have "mixed workloads" with unique requirements that suggest using different types of clouds. View Now BlackBerry's Bleak Options: Will Suitors Really Pay for a Wedding? As BlackBerry's board of directors formally begin exploring "strategic alternatives," they'll find their options limited, according to two IT sector analysts. All the likely alternatives call for a much diminished company, or broken up into some software assets and a brand value that's declining every day. Read More Not Even a New Owner Would Boost BlackBerry's Smartphone Share The BlackBerry 10 OS was supposed to save BlackBerry, but the company's phones have now has slipped into fourth place behind Windows Phone, according to IDC and others. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Boomi Taking iPaaS Beyond Cloud Integration iPaaS is increasingly being deployed beyond cloud services integration, replacing on-premise middleware. In this session, John Zur of Brady Corporation and Rick Nucci of Dell Boomi discuss Brady's growing adoption of iPaaS. Learn More BlackBerry Turns to 7 OS with Social Networking Features for New 9720 Smartphone BlackBerry has launched the 9720 smartphone running the 7 OS in a bid to stay relevant in the growing low end of the smartphone market. Read More Photos of BlackBerry Z30 Emerge Amid Difficult Times for Smartphone Maker Signs of life at BlackBerry are still emerging, despite recent layoffs, an $84 million quarterly loss reported in June and record-low market share. Read More BlackBerry Starts Looking for Buyer or Partner as New OS Struggles BlackBerry's board of directors has formed a committee to explore strategic alternatives for the future of the company that could include joint ventures or a sale of the company, as it struggles to turn its new BlackBerry 10 operating system into a success. Read More
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