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RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie Confirms BBX and Claims it ‘Leap Frogs’ the Competition

By AaronHeier on  From apppressreleases.com
In an interview with Financial Post , Research In Motion’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie, touched on a few things for RIM’s future. Jim was quoted as saying: We’ve leapfrogged everyone with what we’re announcing [on Tuesday] and you’re going to see it on display…We built an engine back in the mid-90s that served us incredibly well for 15 years, and in the past couple of years, we’ve had to build the engine of the future while still driving the engine we’ve got.” In the interview, Balsillie...Read Full Story

RIM’s Jim Balsillie fires back at barbs from Apple’s Steve Jobs

By vancouvermetro on  From vancouvermetro.com
Posted by VancouverSun.com in Business on October 19th, 2010 at 10:32 pm Research In Motion’s Jim Balsillie on Tuesday brushed off Steve Jobs’ critique of RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer, saying the Apple CEO’s barbs made no sense outside of his company’s “distortion field.” Link:  Leave a Reply Search Our Blog: Current Weather Vancouver, CANADA 11 °C Vancouver Live Tweets Intrawest seeking to raise $300 million with Whistler Blackcomb...Read Full Story

Jim Balsillie Responds To Steve Job’s Comments

By bbsync on  From blackberrysync.com
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple,  during a 4th Q earnings call made some comments aimed at the competition over the iPad. And while most of it was directed at Google, the seven inch comment also applied to the PlayBook. Jim Balsillie, Co CEO of RIM, had his response, and it was most fitting. Apples and BlackBerry, pick thy fruit. Jobs stated that seven-inch tablets would be DOA and that while there are a handful of credible entrants coming to the tablets space, that the seven-inch were not as...Read Full Story

Bill Daly reaffirms that the NHL is still off-limits to Jim Balsillie

By TheConfluence on  From kuklaskorner.com
Kukla's Korner Hockey Next entry: Bruins Well Prepared For This Moment Previous entry: The Ducks Goaltending Situation by George Malik on 06/09/11 at 10:07 PM ET Comments (3) On Tuesday, Forbes’ Michael Ozanian reported that the NHL might be willing to let Jim Balsillie back into the ownership picture if he “behaves himself,” but the Toronto Star’s Mark Zwolinski asked NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly to confirm this, and Daly offered a sharp retort : [I]f Balsillie has been...Read Full Story

Jim Balsillie Shoots Back at Apple CEO Steve Jobs About…

By blackberrynewsfinder on  From blackberryfinder.com
It’s great to see RIM firing back at Steve Jobs and not letting him get away with snide remarks about the PlayBook. As you may or may not know, Jobs had this to say about 7″ tablets: “The current crop of 7-inch tablets are going to be DOA, dead on arrival. Their manufacturers will learn the painful lesson that their tablets are too small.” In response, Jim Balsillie had this to say : “For those of us who live outside of Apple’s distortion field, we know that 7″ tablets will actually be a big...Read Full Story
Almost five years ago, Roger Martin, the influential dean of business at University of Toronto, answered a call for help from Jim Balsillie. As half of the leadership duo at Research in Motion Ltd., Mr. Balsillie was anxious to restore the ...  
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As recently as five weeks ago, Jim Balsillie, who helped build Research In Motion into Canada’s biggest company by market value, was showing no signs that he was about to step aside as investors pushed for management changes at the BlackBerry maker. Read full article >>  
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Joint CEO's Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have stepped down from their top-level roles at the BlackBerry-owning firm. Founder Lazaridis will now take the role of vice chairman, with Jim Balsillie taking a non-operational role on the board of...  
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According to the Wall Street Journal, RIM plans to make a big change in its corporate leadership tomorrow, as it will replace its current tag team of CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie with the company's COO, Thorsten Heins. Read the full story here.  
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James Wallace, a Washington lawyer who took on RIM in the case, says by pushing so hard Mr. Balsillie opened the door to RIM rivals. That’s because so many companies got spooked by the possibility of the judge shutting down RIM, which dominated the ...  
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After a bruising year and growing calls for their resignation, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the co-chief executives and co-chairmen of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, announced Sunday they were stepping down from their posts and would be replaced by a new CEO, RIM veteran Thorsten Heins, on Monday.Lazaridis founded RIM in 1985 and, together with Balsillie, oversaw its growth into a multibillion-dollar company in Waterloo, Ontario...  
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Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion ... RIM leadership has resisted the idea of selling the company. The latest numbers have RIM holding 16.6% market share in the smartphone market, with Google leading ...  
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