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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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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Would I do a license today that would protect our ecosystem at the rates they said? Absolutely. Just to get it done with, absolutely. But would it last for the next 10 to 20 years and not give me protection for my business as it evolves? Not in a million years.
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We look forward to helping build the city's wireless communication infrastructure, enabling improved response times, cost-savings and productivity gains for the City of London.
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We made sure the CIO was happy, ... The CIO has a veto and they don't hesitate to use it because they lose their jobs if the security and reliability of company data is compromised.
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China has it's own gestation cycle and you work with it and you respect it.
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Obviously, our business is growing and accelerating and strong,
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Most people couldn't give two hoots about it. Certainly, in Canada our sales are soaring. It's been no factor here.
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lends itself to an individual in a corporation or a small group.
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Settlement has never been an option to date.
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It was very important to get the scope we wanted.
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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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No question, we took one for the team here.
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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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The remainder of fiscal 2006 is shaping up to be extremely robust and we are on track to surpass $2 billion in annual revenue for the first time in our history,