The BlackBerry sales
talked for a long time. Eye on the Canadian smartphone manufacturer has, inter alia, Microsoft, and the company of Waterloo tried to save themselves by all means, even by changing its name. As you can see, it did not work, but the rescue comes a Canadian investment company Fairfax Financial Holding, which currently has a 10 percent stake BlackBerry. The remaining 90 percent want to buy the $ 9 per share, which is supposed to give the amount of 4.7 billion dollars.
Official permission in writing is not yet, but it does not seem that Canadians can not afford to reject such an offer. The company’s shares currently range from 8.16 to 8.6 U.S. dollar, so the offer of the consortium is attractive. The preliminary agreement is a letter of intent to the employees is already in the process of writing, but the confirmation BlackBerry pause, however, to November 4, so until then others are willing to submit their proposals.
If the deal goes through, the BlackBerry is likely to continue to work within the structure of the fund, although probably not on such a scale as before. We expect not only exemptions (up 4,500 people are losing their jobs), but also reduced the production of smartphones. BlackBerry will focus primarily on business solutions.
Recall that the second of the legendary producer, Nokia, sold his share of equipment and services to Microsoft for 5.12 billion dollars (not including the licensing of patents).
can imagine that during its heyday, the two companies were worth a few, maybe even several times …
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