Sunday, December 29, 2013

Founder BlackBerry allows acquisition plan sail - NU.nl

Photo: Bloomberg

According to a report from the U.S. financial authorities Wednesday came out.

Simultaneously Lazaridis

sold nearly half of its share of BlackBerry and now has an interest of 4.99 per cent in the company.

Lazaridis studied this fall, along with co-founder Douglas Fregin, the possibilities to bring who had put. himself in the shop window of a bid for the company Fregin and Lazaridis previously held an interest of 8 percent in BlackBerry.

Eventually

only major shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings made an offer on BlackBerry, but struggled to find financing. above Fairfax decided to abandon the bid in November and the phone maker saved from destruction by a loan of $ 1 billion.

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