BlackBerry formalized on its website the proposed acquisition of a consortium Fairfax Financial, for a total value of $ 4.7 billion. The signing of the agreement is expected in early November.
We will teach you anything you probably saying BlackBerry through the darkest hours of its history. In previous crises, the Canadian manufacturer had hung in the hope that the BlackBerry 10 operating system launched at the end of January would act as savior. Unfortunately for him, the success of the Z10 and Q10 smartphones shipping this OS seems to have all relative.
The time has come for the company management to consider other more drastic measures. As outright sale of the company. Rumors buzzed about it for several days. They come to find an official confirmation since BlackBerry has published information on its own site . The manufacturer has entered into discussions with a consortium led by the investment fund Fairfax Financial. The entire transaction is valued at 4.7 billion U.S. dollars, valuing the action to $ 9.
Note that part of the consortium members remained secret. However, Prem Watsa, chairman of Fairfax Financial, said that there was no key player mobility lurks in the shadows to seize patents BlackBerry for example. The final agreement will be signed on November 4 at the latest. For the rest, it is difficult to guess the future direction of BlackBerry after the acquisition. But in any case, we live a very sad period. Indeed, after Nokia, today is a historic second player in mobile is about to change hands because of the height results
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