BlackBerry shares rise after operation announced by fund ... - Terra Brazil

February 18, 2014 • 15h11

Shares of BlackBerry soar after operation announced by hedge fund

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shares rose more than 6 percent in early trading on Tuesday, after the hedge fund Third Point, investor Daniel Loeb, said it bought 10 million shares of the smartphone maker.

Third Point announced on Friday that it now holds a 1.9 percent slice of the BlackBerry, making it the fifth largest shareholder of the company based in Waterloo, Ontario, according to Thomson Reuters data.

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shares rose 6.8 percent to $ 9.59 on the New York Stock Exchange, while in Toronto shares rose 6 percent to 10.47 Canadian dollars.

hedge fund is known to promote changes in companies in which it invests. Bought a slice of 7 percent on Sony last year and encouraged the Japanese company to separate its entertainment business.

also promoted changes in blue chips such as Dow Chemical and Yahoo.

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Blackberry prepares "low-cost" smartphone - Leak

Blackberry and Foxconn have partnered for the next five years, under which the Taiwan-based company will manufacture BlackBerry devices in their facilities in Indonesia and Mexico.

As mentioned earlier in Leak, the Blackberry is working on an entry-level to be known as Blackberry Jakarta equipment. Recently, a picture of this device in the press, thanks to the N4BB team emerged and lines seems to be very interesting.

This equipment will see the light of day at the Mobile World Congress later this month in Barcelona and as regards the specification will have a 5-inch screen with a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, a dual-core processor with 1.2GHz, 8GB storage capacity, 1.5 GB memory, 2,650 mAh battery, rear and front camera of 5 megapixels and 1.1 respectively. The operating system is BlackBerry OS 10.

CEO says focus on niches and safety will save BlackBerry - Good Information

São Paulo – The chief executive of BlackBerry John Chen bet that focus on niches can help the company out of crisis. The executive signaled that must adopt the strategy in an interview to be published in the March issue of Forbes magazine.

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“Not only is volume. What about Porsche? What to say about the Lamborghini, “said Chen -. Citing automakers focused on the segment of luxury cars

The idea would be to focus the BlackBerry in the enterprise market -. formed by governments, financial markets, health services and other entities

Another asset of

manufacturer smartphones that the government intends to use is linked to security image. “After that Angela Merkel was hacked, she moved straight to the BlackBerry,” said Chen.

is not the first time that the president of a technology company in crisis Porsche uses as a reference. But to reach the level of the German car manufacturer, the BlackBerry has a long road ahead.

Under command of Chen since November, the company ended the third quarter with a loss of 4.4 billion dollars. In 2013, its market share was only 1.9%, according to IDC.

order to rescue the company, Chen announced the return of the BlackBerry smartphone with physical keyboard – among other measures. “There are CEOs of large companies that do not drop out because their BlackBerrys keyboards. They do not care about apps, “Chen said in an interview with Forbes.

BlackBerry once among the largest manufacturers of smartphones in the world – but felt the impact of the emergence of devices like the iPhone. In 2013, the company was close to being sold.

[Images of the BlackBerry Jakarta are revealed] - Xpert Mobile

The Jakarta or BlackBerry Z3, looks very in design with the latest handsets launched by Sony. Rumors suggest the company will reveal the phone next week during the Mobile World Congress and it should cost something around $ 150.

The device must have dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, Adreno 305 GPU, and 1.5 GB of RAM.

[BlackBerry Ontario, are revealed details of the upcoming smartphone ... - Xpert Mobile

If there is a mobile phone company whose situation is particularly delicate, this company is the BlackBerry. His attempts to get back to being a player in the current landscape of smartphones, like the Z10, did not have the expected success and leave the company increasingly distant from his glory days. Apparently, the company is gearing up for another release -., And the rumors are encouraging

According to data found in the list of benchmarks Geekbench, there is a new device that runs BlackBerry OS 10.3 and account in their specifications, with what is better in terms of mobile hardware currently. Called codenamed “Ontario”, it comes with a 800 Snapdragon processor running at 2.15 GHz and 2GB of RAM.

More details on the smartphone, such as the camera or the screen it brings have not yet been disclosed, since these data are not listed by GeekBench. BlackBerry CEO, John Chen, also said last month that most new devices would be equipped with physical QWERTY keyboards

The new handsets -. Including what was found in GeekBench – should be launched in second half of 2014.

Voice support, Dropbox, location and emoticons come to ... - Kioskea

Recently a number of new features now available for BlackBerry Messenger. The application received the Dropbox integration, several new emoticons, support for voice messages, location service and file sharing with a twist, being updated for all operating systems that are available.

BBM Voice which conducts its free calls to other BBM users, regardless of platform, is one of the resources already used in BB10 for Android and iOS update that offers.

were added to the BlackBerry Messenger 100 new emoticons, and a curiosity, is that some of them were based on suggestions from drawings submitted by the users of the messenger.

The update also adds location data sharing, which allows the user to tell your friends where you are. In addition, support for Dropbox, which is another attraction, allows sending files from Dropbox to BBM contacts or save files in the cloud service BBM.

The arrival of BBM Video, with permission to users to make video calls with your friends is another novelty that still waits until the end of the year. For now, the updated BBM is now available for Android, BlackBerry and iOS 10

BlackBerry with octa-core 64bit processor coming in September - Tudocelular.com

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According to a source from Pocket-Lint, the device with octa-core 64-bit processor BlackBerry is being released in September 2014. As such a source would have provided information that became reality in the past.

Besides the processor with 64-bit architecture already a certainty, the device will also be bringing OpenGL 3. With this, the graphics rendering, 3D shadows and objectives should increase considerably. Not the first time that the Canadian uses OpenGL technology on their devices, but with 3 developers may go well beyond.

previous rumors about this supposed smartphone claim that it will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 8994 processor clocked at 2.5 GHz per core.

Besides this top of the line, the Canadian was also working on various intermediaries and input devices to achieve a greater presence in emerging markets.

Tudocelular.com Writing