Jim Balsillie
Jim Balsillie
James Laurence "Jim" Balsillieis a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and former co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion. He is also the founder of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canadian International Counciland the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Following his retirement as co-CEO of RIM in January 2012, Balsillie assumed a director role on RIM's Board of Directors. In March 2012, he resigned from the Board due to strategic differences with RIM's new leader and CEO, Thorsten Heins, who...
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This deal allows us to further extend and enhance the use of wireless communications in the enterprise by offering a voice mobility solution that helps customers align their mobile voice and data strategies.
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As we put this lengthy and complicated litigation behind us, we extend our sincere gratitude to all of our customers and supporters for their patience and loyalty.
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Although our litigation has certainly been pulled into the spotlight recently, we remain intensely focused on serving our customers and partners and maintaining our longstanding culture of innovation.
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We are pleased to expand our relationship with Yahoo! to provide BlackBerry customers with new and enhanced access to Yahoo! services around the world. Our collaboration with Yahoo! will deliver increasingly rich content and services, including enhanced support for Yahoo! Mail, to BlackBerry customers in over sixty countries.
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Our strong market position together with our continuing technology leadership and our unique ability to provide customers and partners with a comprehensive wireless solution presents great opportunity for RIM in the new fiscal year.
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Our collaboration with Yahoo will deliver increasingly rich content and services, including enhanced support for Yahoo Mail, to BlackBerry customers in over 60 countries.
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We have already seen significant customer interest in this powerful combination, and we look forward to building on our relationship with Palm.
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They've never offered us a full license, so I'm kind of hamstrung. It's like: Jim, would you be happy being 6 feet, 6 inches tall? It'd be nice, but it's not an option in this lifetime.
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No matter what, the BlackBerry service will keep working.
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Is this a material development for Palm? Absolutely. Is it a material development for Microsoft? Very marginally. Is it a material development for RIM? No, not really. It doesn't really change any dynamic that we're dealing with whatsoever.
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The issue is that they've been disingenuous with the court and with the public.
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They wouldn't give us terms that would allow us to carry on our business.
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We are very pleased with the progress achieved by RIM and its partners over the summer, and we are particularly energized by our prospects for the second half of the fiscal year, ... We are entering the second half with solid market positioning, strong momentum and an impressive line-up of new products and services. As a result, we are now expecting to surpass $2 billion in annual revenue and the 5 million subscriber milestone before the end of the fiscal year.
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It was very important to get the scope we wanted.