This cannot be a good sign. The CBC is reporting that three execs from troubled smartphone maker Blackberry are leaving:
Almost two weeks after 250 employees were let go from BlackBerry’s testing facility in Waterloo, Ont., CBC News has confirmed three senior members of the company will also be leaving.
- Doug Kozak, vice-president, corporate information technology operations.
- Carmine Arabia, senior vice-president, global manufacturing and supply chain.
- Graeme Whittington, vice-president, service operations.
In an email to CBC News, company spokeswoman Rebecca Freiburger wrote: “We are in the second phase of our transformation plan where we will be assessing our organization — from top to bottom — to ensure we have the right people in the right roles with the right skill sets to drive new opportunities in mobile computing.”
These are some very senior positions. When those sorts of people are asked to leave, as appears to be the case here, it shows that the company is not in a good place. And to be honest, I don’t expect things to get better for Blackberry anytime soon, if ever. That’s unfortunate as they were number 1 in the smartphone market. Now they appear to be on their way to joining Palm in the dustbin despite having some really great product that sadly, nobody wants. But at least their stock went up by 7% on news that BBM is going to be on Samsung phones.
There may be some hope yet.
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3 Blackberry Execs Head To The Exits
This cannot be a good sign. The CBC is reporting that three execs from troubled smartphone maker Blackberry are leaving:
Almost two weeks after 250 employees were let go from BlackBerry’s testing facility in Waterloo, Ont., CBC News has confirmed three senior members of the company will also be leaving.
In an email to CBC News, company spokeswoman Rebecca Freiburger wrote: “We are in the second phase of our transformation plan where we will be assessing our organization — from top to bottom — to ensure we have the right people in the right roles with the right skill sets to drive new opportunities in mobile computing.”
These are some very senior positions. When those sorts of people are asked to leave, as appears to be the case here, it shows that the company is not in a good place. And to be honest, I don’t expect things to get better for Blackberry anytime soon, if ever. That’s unfortunate as they were number 1 in the smartphone market. Now they appear to be on their way to joining Palm in the dustbin despite having some really great product that sadly, nobody wants. But at least their stock went up by 7% on news that BBM is going to be on Samsung phones.
There may be some hope yet.
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