BlackBerry buyout deal gets interesting: new parties considering their own offers

Last Monday, all the rumors of BlackBerry selling off the company finally came to a head, with the news arriving that Fairfax Financial had put forth a $4.7B offer. While that would give the company some much-needed cash, it left us uncertain as to the future of the BlackBerry brand – and specifically, what it could mean for the possibility of seeing new phone hardware. A lot of discussion surrounding this news since then has treated the buyout as a given, the deal’s not set in stone, and today we hear about a couple ...

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