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During the BlackBerry 10 launch event, the company also announced that it would change its public brand from Research In Motion to BlackBerry. [57] [53] The name change was made to "put the BlackBerry brand at the centre" of the company's diverse brands, and because customers in some markets "already know the company as BlackBerry". [15]
Co-founding Research in Motion Design of the BlackBerry device images RIM co-founder Mike Lazaridis, employee Chris Shaw and co-founder Doug Fregin display the Budgie, the company’s first product , at Fairview Park Mall in Kitchener, Ontario , 1984.
One of the company's first achievements was the development of barcode technology for film. RIM plowed the profits from that into wireless data transmission research, eventually leading to the introduction of the BlackBerry wireless mobile device in 1999, and its better-known version in 2002. In 2020, he purchased the 80 m (262 ft) yacht Artefact.
BlackBerry co-founder and Vice Chairman of the Board Mike Lazaridis will resign from the board on May 1, 2013, the company announced today in its fourth-quarter and year-end fiscal report.
Its founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, were the companies first and second CEOs. Andy Grove, who was brought in shortly after the company’s founding, took over as CEO in 1987.
After breaking into NASA to make his last movie, “Operation Avalanche,” one would think that “BlackBerry” — a film that, on paper, sounds like a standard book adaptation about a Canadian ...
BlackBerry lost its market dominance to Google's Android technology in 2010, when the operating system of the machine, BlackBerry OS, had not been updated since March 2002. [ 11 ] At the end of 2011, Balsillie was the third largest shareholder of the company, holding 5.1% of the outstanding shares. [ 6 ]
The BlackBerry KEYone was the first device made under the BlackBerry Mobile brand, although it was partially designed by BlackBerry Limited. In February 2020, it was announced that TCL Corporation would stop manufacturing the devices on August 31, 2020, coinciding with the end of their access to the BlackBerry license.