Like Fairfax, Lazaridis and Fregin face the next hurdle of raising the capital to buy the company. BlackBerry watchers have speculated they could turn to Canada's deep-pocketed pension funds for cash.

BlackBerry’s leadership came in for a great deal of criticism when the once-mighty brand collapsed. Many industry experts said the company failed to innovate quickly enough and respond to the changing ...

Sometimes, your words can come back to haunt you, and right now, they must surely be haunting Mike Lazaridis, co-founder of BlackBerry (formerly RIM), the company whose eponymously named smartphone ...

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On Wednesday, the outage had reached the Americas, with frustrated BlackBerry users reporting spotty service or no service in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Lazaridis said service has started ...

In 1997, Lazaridis' efforts finally paid off in the form of a smaller, more efficient BlackBerry that quickly became a huge commercial success. Lazaridis insists that the BlackBerry's popularity ...

In 1996, amidst the booming technology industry in Ontario, Mike Lazaridis finds a corner of the market to stake his claim, crafting a new type of cellular phone with internet capabilities and a ...

Balsillie joined BlackBerry in 1992, eight years after it was founded. He was co-CEO with founder Mike Lazaridis until in January of 2012 when they both stepped down to let Thorsten Heins take over.

“You are going to be able to get the full Web experience,” Lazaridis said, stressing its integration with RIM’s BlackBerry smartphone, a favorite among many professionals. BlackBerry ...

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with BlackBerry ... The script centers on Mike Lazaridis (Baruchel) and Jim Balsillie (Howerton ...