More Details Emerge on Fairfax Financial Deal & Prem Watsa’s Plans
Every few hours we seem to learn a bit more about what went into the Fairfax Financial consortium $1 billion convertible debt deal. The latest is from the Globe & Mail bringing us some great quotes and insight into Prem Watsa’s plans. Here are some of the highlights: “Our focus is great management, we have…
Fairfax Agreed Not To Sell Their BlackBerry Shares in the Next Year
Another interesting wrinkle came out of the latest news on the Fairfax Financial consortium. Fairfax currently owns about 10% of the outstanding BlackBerry shares. CBCNewsis reporting that Fairfax has agreed not to sell their 10% stake in the next year. That means Fairfax is definitely in this for the long haul…
New BlackBerry CEO, John Chen, Salary Breakdown Revealed
You can tell what a CEO is hired to do and how long they plan on him being around based on the CEO’s pay package. The new Interim CEO of BlackBerry, John Chen, just had his pay package revealed in an SEC filing. Essentially he is getting a $1 million a year salary with up…
BlackBerry FINALLY Releases an Update to the BlackBerry 10 OS in BlackBerry World (Android Player)
For years I have been waiting for BlackBerry to start bypassing the carrier OS approval process by releasing updates to parts of the OS in BlackBerry World. Every time it seemed like they were going to do it they pulled back. In legacy OS 7.0 we were supposed to get incremental updates at least…
Mercedes AMG Petronas Lewis Hamilton Celibrates BBM Cross Platform @ Dubai Mall
BlackBerry had Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One team driver Lewis Hamilton at the Dubai Mall. He was celebrating cross platform BBM launch with excited fans at the Dubai Mall ahead of the 2013 Formula One Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. He answered questions that fans asked him over BBM and visited the BlackBerry Store…
SEC Filing Reveals Fairfax Financial Consortium Investors in BlackBerry (80% Canadian)
We knew that Fairfax Financial was only responsible for $250 million of the $1 billion convertible debt BlackBerry received this week but we did not know who was responsible for the rest. Now thanks to a SEC filing by BlackBerry we have the whole list including the previously rumored Qatar Holding LLC and how…
OS 10.2.0.1803 Leaks For All Devices (Q5/Q10/Z10/Z30) With Updated Runtime
The leaks are back! We now have OS 10.2.0.1803 courtesy of BerryLeaks and its is available for all devices. The STL100-1 is now available yet but it should be available soon. This is a small update to the previous 1791 leak but from what we hear includes an updated runtime and bug fixes. Check…
BlackBerry Posts Up BES 5.0.4 Maintenance Release 6 Documentation
BlackBerry is doing a decent job of keeping legacy BES up to date. Their latest update is going to be BES 5.0.4 MR6 which is coming sometime in the near future. My buddy Piotr at BBNews.pl noticed that BlackBerry posed up the change log documentation for the release which means it is coming shortly. The…