Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
A headline yesterday in Canada was more akin to the tone of those we were used to seeing before the launch of BlackBerry 10, on January 30th. “BlackBerry shares fall 8 per cent as hype over smartphone launch wears off” was the title of a piece by The Canadian Press’s David Friend, which quoted research [...]
At a time when you’d think BlackBerry would be in full grip-and-grin sales mode, Thorsten Heins took a moment during an address to the Empire Club of Canada to dump battery acid on a particularly troublesome nuisance. “This past year our sector spent almost $30-billion in courtrooms – particularly U.S. courtrooms – defending cases against [...]
Byron Capital analyst Tom Astle attended the BlackBerry 10 launch in New York last week, and has now ditched his iPhone, at least temporarily, for the new Z-10. Astle says he was a loyal BlackBerry user until 2010, when he made the switch to the Apple because, he says, he “really wanted a 21st century [...]
“Buy on rumour, sell on news”. It looks like the old trader adage played out as expected this week for Research in Motion, which we’ll hopefully remember to call “BlackBerry” by Monday, when the company will have new ticker symbols. Byron Capital’s Tom Astle attended the much anticipated BlackBerry 10 debut in New York Wednesday. [...]
The much anticipated BlackBerry 10 launch happened at various places around the world today, but all eyes were on New York. The day was not without some surprises; RIM announced it was changing its name to BlackBerry, Alicia Keys was named Official Creative Director (a move that was met with some puzzled expressions), and RIM’s [...]
It seems everyone showed up for RIM’s big party except for Mr. Market. On a day when the company revealed new devices that wowed the New York Times and impressed The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Mossberg, shares of the freshly minted BlackBerry (whose ticker symbol will, on Monday, change to BBRY on Nasdaq and BB [...]
One of the real surprises out of today’s BlackBerry 10 launch was that Research in Motion has changed its name to BlackBerry. Starting on Monday, the stock will begin trading under the symbol “BBRY” on the Nasdaq, and “BB” on the TSX. The company has just posted a video interview with Chief Marketing Officer Frank [...]
“I’m sorry. I was wrong.” Those are the first words of New York Times technology writer David Pogue’s article on the BlackBerry 10 penned today, called “The BlackBerry, Rebuilt, Lives to Fight Another Day”. Pogue says he was wrong when he told someone recently that BlackBerry was doomed. His review of the new devices is [...]
The phone many longtime BlackBerry users were waiting for was unveiled today. The BlackBerry Q10 merges the physical keypad RIM is known for with the BlackBerry 10 Operating System. At this moment, the most noteworthy news item floating around about this device is its launch date; BlackBerry says the device won’t be available until April. [...]
OK, so BlackBerry 10, after some uncertainty, will have Skype. But what about BBM, the only feature RIM has had in the past few years that could be described a massive hit? In this case, the rumours were dead on; BlackBerry Messenger will be video chat enabled for BlackBerry 10 devices. In the video below, [...]
