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Turmoil at BlackBerry: a new CEO, BB10 delays, and buyout rumors

It has been a tough year for RIM. The BlackBerry PlayBook has not seen much success, its co-CEO structure buckled under intense pressure as the company appointed Thorsten Heins as the new CEO, and its next-generation operating system has been delayed and renamed. We’ve rounded up all the dark tidings in one spot.

BlackBerry suing Ryan Seacrest’s keyboard startup (updated)

BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis won’t pursue bid for company

BlackBerry set to lose two more executives as leadership cull continues

BlackBerry’s brush with fame: reaching Justin Bieber, discos, and the NFL

BlackBerry CEO John Chen says company is ‘very much alive’ and returning to its roots

Three key BlackBerry executives ousted as new CEO tries to salvage the company

BlackBerry’s new CEO gets $85 million to stick around

BlackBerry reportedly refused to break up company despite interest from Apple, Microsoft

Berry picking: a look back at BlackBerry’s long list of potential buyers

Who is John Chen, BlackBerry’s new CEO?

BlackBerry CEO steps down as company secures $1 billion funding from investors

Banks afraid of joining $4.7 billion BlackBerry bid, says Reuters

BlackBerry and Facebook met to discuss potential buyout, reports WSJ

Lenovo is looking into acquiring BlackBerry, says report

BlackBerry says it isn’t failing yet in open letter

BlackBerry’s co-founders considering acquisition of company, according to SEC filing

Top BlackBerry 10 designers and developers quit to form a new design company

BlackBerry reportedly in talks with Google, Samsung, and others about potential sale

BlackBerry’s dark road ahead detailed in new filings

Bleak BlackBerry Q2 results highlight nearly $1 billion in unsold Z10 phones

T-Mobile no longer stocking BlackBerry products at retail stores

BlackBerry says BBM messaging app for Android and iOS isn’t coming this week

BlackBerry receives $4.7 billion buyout offer from Canadian investment company

BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis reportedly considering bid for his former company

BlackBerry to retreat from consumer market, lay off 4,500 employees

BlackBerry reportedly preparing to lay off up to 40 percent of workers

BlackBerry puts quantity over quality, lets one developer own a third of its app store

Message unread: Silicon Valley’s secret, failed bid to save BlackBerry

Former Blackberry co-CEO sells off entire stake in the company he helped build

RIM’s first patent settlement payment to Nokia is $65 million

RIM agrees to pay Nokia for patent licenses

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency ends BlackBerry contract, will issue iPhones instead

Microsoft and RIM battle for third place, but is four a crowd?

RIM revs up: a new QWERTY phone, new software, and new ambitions

IBM reportedly interested in buying RIM’s enterprise services unit

BlackBerry exodus continues as prominent UI designer leaves RIM

High and low: what RIM’s failure is doing to the people of Waterloo

RIM reportedly ordered to pay $147.2 million in enterprise server patent suit

Developer interest in BB10 falls 17 percent, lags behind iOS, Android, and Windows Phone

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins interview: ‘we have roughly 80 million users today — Nokia doesn’t have that’

BlackBerry 7 will continue until ‘full portfolio’ of BlackBerry 10 phones is available

Thorsten Heins on delaying BlackBerry 10: ‘I could still see some of the seams’

RIM US head: BlackBerry 10 is ‘an entirely new way of interacting with the world around us’

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins says there is ‘nothing wrong’ with the company

RIM’s downward spiral visualized

RIM reiterates BlackBerry 10 hardware plan: fewer devices, QWERTY and full touch models around the same time

BlackBerry 10 delayed, devices to launch globally in Q1 2013

RIM reports fiscal Q1 2013 earnings: cutting 5,000 jobs this fiscal year, $518m net loss

RIM may sell handset business, according to The Sunday Times

RIM wins court case over rights to BBM name

RIM halts stock trading, will ‘likely have an operating loss’ in Q1

RIM to lay off at least 12 percent of workforce in restructuring effort, says Globe and Mail

Sonos hires former RIM sales chief Patrick Spence, says Reuters

RIM EVP of global sales Patrick Spence resigns

RIM appoints Kristian Tear as new COO, Frank Boulben as new CMO

RIM stock price falls to eight-year low following BlackBerry 10 reveal

Reuters: RIM hiring law firm to lead restructuring, asset sales being considered

Bloomberg: RIM ‘prefers’ to license BlackBerry OS, doesn’t want to be bought

Jim Balsillie quit RIM over veto of radical reinvention, BBM expansion, says Reuters

RIM loses two more executives following poor Q4 results

RIM loses more senior executives since last week’s earnings call: WSJ

RIM is not abandoning the consumer market (update: RIM confirms)

RIM reports fiscal fourth quarter results: $125m loss on $4.2b revenue

Jim Balsillie resigns from RIM’s board as poor earnings loom

RIM reportedly lays off multiple high-level executives under new CEO’s direction

All eyes are on RIM, CEO Thorsten Heins ahead of earnings call tomorrow

Apple sold more smartphones than RIM in Canada last year

US alcohol and firearms regulator abandons BlackBerry for iPhone, other platforms

Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire

US General Services Administration shifting some employees away from BlackBerry

Alleged BlackBerry 10 images leak: widgets, new icon tray, and more

US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration drops BlackBerry for iPhone

BlackBerry App World stats: six million daily downloads, higher profitability than Android

RIM chairwoman Barbara Stymiest says board shakeup isn’t over

RIM handing out free BlackBerry PlayBooks to Android app developers

If RIM wants to fix the BlackBerry brand, it’s time for some demolition

RIM’s Mike Lazaridis calls giving up CEO role ‘very hard’

RIM CEO: ‘I run the company,’ 80-90 percent of US BlackBerrys running older OS (update)

RIM CEO: BlackBerry is a differentiated product, Android OEMs ‘are all the same’

BlackBerry PlayBook, Curve refreshes leaked, London coming in Q3

RIM’s new CEO: who is Thorsten Heins?

RIM is open to licensing BlackBerry 10, confirms new CEO

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins: ‘I can’t wait to see’ BlackBerry 10

WSJ confirms BlackBerry PlayBook ‘revamp’ in the works

RIM: Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis step down, co-COO Thorsten Heins is the new CEO

The long road to BlackBerry 10

RIM reportedly hires Goldman Sachs ‘to explore strategic options’

RIM replacing Balsillie and Lazaridis as chairmen of the board, Financial Post says

WSJ: Pressure intensifying on RIM’s co-CEOs

RIM faces another trademark lawsuit, this time for ‘BBM’

WSJ: Microsoft and Nokia also casually considered jointly buying RIM

Amazon considered buying RIM this summer

$1.7 million in BlackBerry PlayBooks stolen from an Indiana truck stop

RIM: no BlackBerry 10 phones until late 2012

RIM reports fiscal Q3 earnings: profits down 71 percent on $5.17 billion revenue

BBX is now BlackBerry 10, likely due to BASIS lawsuit

Analyst: BlackBerry Playbook is an ‘albatross’

Basis sues RIM over BBX trademark infringement

BlackBerry Tablet OS 2.0 delayed to February 2012, won’t include BBM

RIM faces legal complaint over ‘BBX’ operating system name

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The ban on robot vacuums won’t make them safer, only worse

With Switch 2, iPhone, and laptop tricks, the Sharge Disk Pro 2 is finally a worthy EDC

You could be taking way better photos on your phone

The US government just banned Roombas

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