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 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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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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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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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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With the litigation behind us, we're looking forward to building on the momentum we're seeing in early (fiscal) 2007.
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No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realize. This transition is where tech companies go to die.
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I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.
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In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.
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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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What they're really trying to say is, 'Are we approaching maturity in this market?' And my response is ... we're the farthest thing from maturity in this market.
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The problem with these guys...when they took their final position on 'here's what we'll do,' it wasn't about money. They wouldn't give us terms that would allow us to carry on our business.
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We're not going into details--and you can expect to see other launches around the world in the not-too-distant future,
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We haven't gone into the details of it. But, the fundamental of it is, we'd build it into our shipments.
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When we license this we're going to look for reputable, substantial companies,