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RIM’s Acquisition of Chalk Media Finally Completed

In early December we told you guys that RIM and Chalk Media had made an arrangement for RIM to acquire Chalk for $23.1 million CAD and a $2.2 million CAD loan.  This would allow RIM to have the rights to some sweet pushcasting technology.  Well, last week on Jan. 27th the deal finally closed.  RIM [...]

Feb, 06 2009 Comments Full Story

RIM Withdraws Certicom Takeover

The take over bid for software encryption company Certicom has been going on for a while.  It is finally over with Certicom being the victors.  Certicom filed an injuction earlier this week and was granted by the court and RIM finally withdrew.  RIM’s $66 million CAD bid for the company is now history.  Here is [...]

Jan, 22 2009 Comments Full Story

Verizon/Alltel Deal Will Close on Jan. 9th

The Verizon/Alltel merger will finally be finished come Jan. 9th.  This will clench the win for Verizon being the America’s largest wireless carrier over AT&T.  The deal called for Verizon to pay $5.9 billion for Alltel’s private equity and taking on $22.2 billion in debt.  Verizon Wireless has received commitments from 8 financial institutions to [...]

Jan, 05 2009 Comments Full Story

Microsoft Wants to Buy RIM

Electronista turned us on to some very interesting news today.  RIM’s recent drop in stock value has gotten Microsoft’s attention.  The recent plunge may give MS to try and take over RIM.  It is supposed that Microsoft has offered RIM $50 per share which RIM’s stock is getting very close to.  This begs me to [...]

Oct, 10 2008 Comments Full Story
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