He will become executive chairman and continue to be chairman
The addition of a mobile payments service to Apple Inc's next iPhone could help to boost sales of the larger-screen phones and claw back market share lost to mobiles running on Google Inc's Android platform.
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.
Generic drugmakers cannot be sued under state law for adverse reactions to their products.
Some investors had speculated that the US central bank might put its plans on hold given the jitters overseas.