Re:BlackBerry-Fairfax takeover dies; Thorsten Heins out
by bane on Monday November 04, 2013 @10:51AM
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If anybody is smart, they'll get bought out for the patents by Google.
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Re:BlackBerry-Fairfax takeover dies; Thorsten Heins out
by JeremyNT on Monday November 04, 2013 @01:14PM
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This was my immediate thought as well. Their patent portfolio should be immensely valuable, and the Moto patents seem to have proven weaker than Google anticipated. Things look more and more dire for BB's actual business of selling things, so the patent portfolio probably represents a majority of the company's value.
Alternately, MS or Apple could buy them up simply to prevent Google from doing so.