The company plans to raise $1 billion with a private placement of convertible debentures.
The company has been struggling in the highly competitive smartphone market globally.
The struggling smartphone maker has been slashing prices of its handsets in India -- Z30, Z10, Q5, 9320 and 9720 -- to drive sales due to competition from Android, iOS and Nokia's Windows Phone, which have been offering devices at affordable prices.
RIM must persuade diehard BlackBerry fans to upgrade to something radically new.
Faced with mounting losses and unsold inventory, struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has sold its US office in Texas to Brookfield Property Group as it seeks to rationalise costs.
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Essentially, this is BlackBerry's cheapest device that runs its latest operating system, BlackBerry 10.
How well does the Rs 44k BlackBerry Q10 with its premium finish and a Qwerty keypad stacks up against Samsung Flagship Galaxy S4?
The troubled Canadian handset major has India and enterprise clients at the centre of its turnaround plans, notes Shivani Shinde Nadhe.
RIMs market share has shot up to 13 per cent.
The couple has not revealed their daughter's name as yet, reports E!Online. But Berry insists that the baby will have her father, Gabriel Aubry's surname.
The new Silver data plan provides customers with unlimited data for accessing up to 10 supported e-mail accounts, plus an optional BlackBerry email address, and popular instant messaging (IM) services at the low monthly rate of just Rs 299, TTSL said.
BlackBerry has signed a letter of intent agreement under which a consortium to be led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has offered to acquire the company subject to due diligence, it said in a statement.
It is betting on enterprise services and new launches to revive demand. But are the measures enough to steal a march on established players like Samsung and Micromax?
Operators, including Tata Teleservices, have submitted the compliance report for messenger services to the department of telecommunications.
BlackBerry has no plans to sell its devices business even as the Canadian smartphone maker faces losses and inventory pile
Often called Canada's version of Warren Buffet, Watsa preaches a long view that suggests it may be too early to assess his decision to take on a leading 10 per cent stake in BlackBerry.
Saudi Arabia has allowed Research In Motion (RIM) to continue BlackBerry services in the kingdom.
To provide a concrete solution for interception of data sent using Blackberry messenger, a Jaipur-based IT company has claimed to have developed a mobile communication service for all users that will work under the orbit of Indian law.
Government has already warned the popular smartphone company that if it does not allow it to monitor emails and SMSes to address security concerns, it will have to close down operations in the country, spelling trouble for over a million BlackBerry users in India.
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Pakistan has said that it needs access to users' data to maintain its security.
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Despite recent enthusiasm for RIM's new BB10 devices, we see limited scope for traction in the hyper-competitive smartphone market.
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Cellular service provider Airtel on Wednesday extended BlackBerry wireless services to select Nokia and Sony Ericsson mobile handsets, extending the 'e-mail on phone' facility to a larger user base.
The BBM Channel will be available for all BlackBerry users, iOS and Android OS platforms.
Months before Fairfax Financial Holdings Inc bid $4.7 billion for BlackBerry Ltd, Fairfax boss Prem Watsa played a role in securing a golden parachute worth as much as $55 million for the smartphone maker's chief executive.
Bidders eyeing parts of Canadian smartphone maker than the whole company, say sources
BlackBerry had launched Z10 and a Qwerty device Q5, powered by its latest BB10 operating system, with a lot of fanfare.
Passport is competitively and aggressively priced because of its specification.
The government had set August 15 as the deadline for Canada's Research In Motion to provide the country's security agencies with the interception keys to enable real-time tracking of its popular BlackBerry messenger and corporate email services in readable format.
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The Canadian smartphone maker has over 1.5 million customers in India.
Security agencies are making "rather astonishing" demands for increased powers to monitor e-mail and other data traffic.
In September, BlackBerry had paused the global rollout of its instant messaging service BBM on rival phones, blaming the delay on issues caused by an unreleased old version of BBM (BlackBerry Messenger).
Government has already warned the popular smartphone company that if it does not allow it to monitor emails and short messaging services to address security concerns, it will have to close down operations in the country, spelling trouble for over a million BlackBerry users in India.
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