BlackBerry will not change the owner and will continue to produce smartphones - announces the new CEO, John Chen. Yes, you got it right: the Canadian company has the new CEO and ambitious plans for the future!
According to the Canadian newspaper "Globe and Mail", the former majority shareholder, Fairfax, a Canadian insurance and investment company - due to the resistance of banks which were to finance everything - abandons plans to buy the remaining stake in the BlackBerry, and instead intends to "inject" in the impoverished company another billion dollars. One of the elements of the recovery plan is the resignation of the head of BB, Thorsten Heins. This German engineer was responsible for the implementation of BlackBerry 10, having taken his position in January 2012, replacing BlackBerry founders Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis. The new CEO, John Chen, the former CEO of Sybase, announced that he would not give up the fight for their piece of smartphone market. He says that the BlackBerry "we have enough ingredients to build a long-term sustainable business." Will he succeed - I do not know, but I am sure that he is facing a real challenge! He estimated his chances quite optimistic, saying: "I have done this before and seen the same movie before. There is a lot to do. There are a lot of challenges or otherwise I would not be interested."
Source PocketNow
