BlackBerry sold all its shares to an investment company at ¥ 460 billion

ByNinja M.

Study strategic choice including sellingWasBlackBerryIs an investment company headquartered in Toronto, CanadaFairfax Financial HoldingsAnnounced that it will sell all its shares to a corporate group centered on the company. The total transaction amount is 4.7 billion dollars (about 464.6 billion yen).

BlackBerry Enters into Letter of Intent with Consortium led by Fairfax Financial - Yahoo Finance
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In 1984, BlackBerry was founded under the name of Research In Motion (RIM). It is a pioneer of smartphones known for the development and sale of mobile phones equipped with BlackBerry OS, established a Japanese corporation in 2001, and has provided terminals through NTT Docomo. Today, smart phones are two strong compositions of Android and iPhone, but as of 2008, the market value of RIM was $ 55 billion (about 5.4 trillion yen).

The feature of BlackBerry is that it sticks to using the physical keyboard to the terminal and BlackBerry Messenger is widely used in the Egyptian revolution in January 2011 and the UK riot in summer 2011 due to the high anonymity It was an active part.

However, as the number of Android and iPhone applications explosively increases, BlackBerry-enabled applications can not increase the number and invite users to be away. The next-generation terminal of Kuichi Kurihiro "BlackBerry 10"The release is postponed and one third of employees is dismissed due to poor performanceAlthough it was supposed to be able to finish releasing it somehowIt will not lead to an increase in shipment volume, "To sell" was reached. The corporate group plans to acquire 1 share for 9 dollars (about 890 yen) and to unpublish the shares.

As performance is falling, its technical strengthMicrosoft and Google are showing interestAlthough there was also a story saying that Microsoft was mainly making the terminal of Windows Phone which is its own OSAcquired Nokia's mobile phone business. It seems that the company that was named other names did not handle it in the long run.

For domestic BlackBerry users, when you put BlackBerry 10 and its equipped terminals in 2013Decided to withdraw from the Japanese marketIt may not be big news compared to what I did, but is there another development from here ...?