Waterloo, ON – The Board of Directors of BlackBerry® maker Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that, acting on the recommendation of its Co-Chief Executive Officers to implement the succession plan they previously submitted to the Board, it has unanimously named Thorsten Heins as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Heins was also appointed to RIM’s Board. The Board acted after conducting its own due diligence. Both appointments are effective immediately.
Mike Lazaridis, former Co-Chair and Co-CEO, has become Vice Chair of RIM’s Board and Chair of the Board’s new Innovation Committee. As Vice Chair, he will work closely with Mr. Heins to offer strategic counsel, provide a smooth transition and continue to promote the BlackBerry brand worldwide.
Mr. Heins said he looks forward to continuing to work with Mr. Lazaridis, globally recognized as a technology pioneer. He said, “Mike created a whole new way of communicating and I look forward to continuing our close collaboration.”
On the transition to CEO by Mr. Heins, Mr. Lazaridis said, “There comes a time in the growth of every successful company when the founders recognize the need to pass the baton to new leadership. Jim and I went to the Board and told them that we thought that time was now. With BlackBerry 7 now out, PlayBook 2.0 shipping in February and BlackBerry 10 expected to ship later this year, the company is entering a new phase, and we felt it was time for a new leader to take it through that phase and beyond. Jim, the Board and I all agreed that leader should be Thorsten Heins.”
Word on the street is that Research in Motion is offering the 16 GB BlackBerry PlayBook to its employees for just $100.
Each employee is eligible to snag up to 5 devices, so, if you know someone who works for RIM and you want to get an credibly cheap tablet, you may want to hit them up for a favor…
Adobe Systems yesterday announced that it will no longer develop Flash for the mobile web instead focusing on HTML 5 and porting Flash Apps to stand-alone Adobe AIR mobile apps.
One of the big differentiators of the BlackBerry PlayBook from the iPad is its full support of Adobe Flash, so, after yesterday’s Adobe announcement, RIM, issued this statement…
Yesterday I started hearing that some BlackBerry users were having problems with delayed messages on Twitter, email, and browsing the web. Rumors that Research in Motion was having some type of outage started to spread, but, as it turns out, there was actually a problem with the internet…
There was a global Internet issue this morning that impacted a number of Internet Service Providers (ISP) around the world. RIM’s BlackBerry Infrastructure was not impacted however, some customers may have experienced delays with their ISP. RIM continues to monitor the situation.
Research in Motion founder and co-CEO, Mike Lazaridis, released this video video addressing the BlackBerry service outage that pretty much affected earth. Big Mike says “You expect better from us and I expect better from us”…
RIM just can’t buy a break these days. The BlackBerry outage in EMEA has moved into day three and it appears that it has spread to North and South America…
To say that yesterday wasn’t a good day for Research in Motion would be a bit of an understatement. The company announced second quarter fiscal 2012 results yesterday and pretty much everything said was a disappointment. It looks like, however, RIM’s night may have been even worse. The stock (RIMM) price dropped almost 22% in after-hours trading down $-6.45 to $23.09 one hour before the markets open.
It looks like Alex Kinsella meant when he tweeted that BlackBerry App World 3.0 was coming today, it was coming immediately. BlackBerry App World 3.0 is now available for download. Head over to http://blackberry.com/appworld to download.
According to a Tweet from Alex Kinsella, Senior Product Manager for BlackBerry App World, BlackBerry App World 3.0, which has been in beta for several weeks, is coming today…
