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Jesse Brown: Will smartphones make cash and credit cards obsolete?
With just one tap, you’ll soon be able use your smartphone to make a purchase, redeem a coupon, earn Air Miles and receive a digital receipt. The telecom giants say it’s the next big thing. But is it...
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Talk of mass layoffs at Blackberry completely upstage the company’s massive...
(Images: smart phone courtesy of BlackBerry; pink slip, pink slip Rick) We knew things were really bad at BlackBerry. Now we know they’re really, really bad. Rumours are swirling that the faltering...
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The big BlackBerry buyout is off and its CEO gets the boot
Sorry, Thorsten. (Image: screenshot from Youtube) Remember Fairfax Financial’s ballyhooed $4.7 billion deal to buy (and thereby save) BlackBerry? Well, it’s not happening. The Canadian insurance...
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The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to the top of our Influentials list was Rob Ford’s Crackgate—a story...
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Five things we learned from Bloomberg Businessweek‘s history of...
(Image: langleyo) These days, the news out of Waterloo is almost uniformly bad: BlackBerry‘s new line of smartphones bombed quickly after being released early this year, leading to about a billion...
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BlackBerry’s latest setback: no more Alicia Keys
(Image: BlackBerry: m lobo; Keys: Walmart) So much for that branding exercise. About a year ago, when it was getting ready to launch its new line of phones, BlackBerry announced R&B singer Alicia...
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BlackBerry is suing Ryan Seacrest
(Image: Courtesy of Typo Products) Having broken up with one celebrity, BlackBerry is now suing another. The Canadian Press reports that the Waterloo-based smartphone maker has filed a lawsuit against...
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BlackBerry is doing slightly less terribly now, thanks to the U.S. Department...
(Image: langleyo) When last we checked in on BlackBerry, the company was hemorrhaging money and alienating celebrities—but you know what happens when something hits rock bottom? It bounces. Bloomberg...
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BlackBerry is trying to prevent Ryan Seacrest from selling an iPhone accessory
(Image: Courtesy of Typo Products) BlackBerry has spent much of the past year trying desperately to make its phones seem more like iPhones, so one can only imagine how troubling it must be to...
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BlackBerry’s new comeback plan? Stickers
(Image: langleyo) Struggling Waterloo-based smartphone maker BlackBerry has spent the past two years churning through resurrection plan after resurrection plan in an attempt to regain market share lost...
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Presenting: The Ford 2014 Dream Team
“Avengers…coagulate into a fleshy, unelectable mass!” Talk about synergy. Whether out of horrifying obliviousness, or as part of a calculated effort to indulge in self-parody as a political tactic,...
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PHOTO: BlackBerry tries to get in on the Raptors’ goodwill
This is what the National Post’s website looked like as of Monday afternoon. BlackBerry is an official team sponsor, so we suppose a little brand synergy is to be expected, but there’s something about...
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BlackBerry is still more popular than Apple—at least, in Toronto
(Image: iPhone: Matthew Pearce; BlackBerry: Martin Hajek) Could BlackBerry’s appeals to national pride actually be working? According to a new report from iQmetrix, a supplier of retail-management...
View ArticleBlackBerry lost way less money than everyone was expecting it to
$207,000,000 —The net loss disclosed by BlackBerry as part of its second-quarter earnings report earlier this morning. Although this figure looks terrible to the untrained eye, it’s actually positive...
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My Cheating Heart: lessons from my year on Ashley Madison
[caption id="attachment_188650" align="alignright" width="300"] (Illustration by Jack Dylan)[/caption] Everything you’re about to read is true. I’m withholding my name to protect my marriage, but the...
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