January 30, 2013

Inside BlackBerry's Last Stand

Jessi Hempel, Fortune


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FORTUNE -- Here's what Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins wants you to do: forget everything you know about BlackBerry. Just about everything at the Canadian smartphone maker is new. The twin BlackBerry 10 devices unveiled today are thinner and sleeker than previous models. The underlying software has been entirely rebuilt. And the company itself has a new name. Research in Motion is now called BlackBerry and will soon begin to trade as BBRY on the NASDAQ.

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