Losing the Signal : : the Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry
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"In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is less than one percent. What went so wrong? [This] is a ... story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed. The rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway. With unprecedented access to key players ... [the book] unveils the ... rise of a company that started above a bagel store in Ontario, at the heart of [which is the story of] an unlikely partnership between a visionary engineer, Mike Lazaridis, and an abrasive Harvard Business school grad, Jim Balsillie"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Flatiron Books, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 279 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250060174
1250060176
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Silcoff, Sean,
SUBJECTS
BlackBerry Limited.
BlackBerry (Smartphone).