Mike Lazaridis

BlackBerry blow-up: How a leadership rift ripped RIM apart

An excerpt of ‘Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry,’ on the fatal division between Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie

In conversation with Mike Lazaridis

The BlackBerry founder on quantum technology and how it could change the world

How did Mike Lazaridis make our Power List?

Paul Wells explains after his visit to the Quantum Valley

5 Canadians who’ve won unique honours and awards

Where else will you find Conrad Black, Céline Dion and Stephen Lewis on one list?

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Lazaridis donates $21 million to Waterloo

RIM founder’s gifts now total $123 million

The fall of the BlackBerry titans

The fall of the BlackBerry titans

Strategic blunders, reckless pride and bad luck unravelled it all

Farewell, then, Lazaridis and Balsillie

RIM’s co-CEOs are taking a big step away from the spotlight

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Has RIM lost its way?

A major network outage and investor unrest has Research In Motion vowing that it will fight back

Newsmakers

Newsmakers: Sept. 15-22

A murderess goes to school, Toronto city hall smells a rat and Michaele Salahi’s husband stops believin’

Can RIM recover?

Can RIM recover?

With investors and customers losing faith, its fate may rest in a promised ‘superphone’

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Ideas you can take from the bank

“One rarely has to wait long at Perimeter before somebody comes along with a gift of money,” I wrote in September in my account of a month at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo.  Today will be another such day. But not nearly routine, even by the standards of such days.

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Mike Lazaridis vs. Peter Robertson

Supremely useful low-tech wages battle against supremely useful high-tech