Lots of news around smartphone-maker BlackBerry yesterday, not all of it positive.
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BlackBerry to ‘explore strategic alternatives’ including sale
The not-so-long, public fall of BlackBerry may be reaching an end. The Canadian smartphone firm announced plans yesterday to “explore strategic alternatives to enhance value and increase scale in order to accelerate BlackBerry 10 deployment” – which it suggested could include joint ventures, strategic alliances or a sale of part or all of the company
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Nokia overhauls Blackberry with Q2’s 7.4m Lumia smartphone sales
Nokia also announced its latest quarterly financial results yesterday, with revenues down 24% year-on-year to €5.7bn ($7.5bn)
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MusicQubed gets former BlackBerry and Vodafone exec as chairman
MusicQubed is the British startup behind the O2 Tracks subscription mobile app, which has so far attracted more than 500k signups in the UK.
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BlackBerry reports quarterly loss despite 6.8m smartphone shipments
While BlackBerry’s revenues increased from $2.8bn in its fiscal Q1 last year, to $3.1bn this year, the company slid into a loss of $94m in the latter period. And while it sold 6.8m smartphones during the latest quarter, 60% of those were its older handsets rather than the new BlackBerry 10 devices spearheading the company’s comeback.
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Omnifone platform has added 1.2m new subscribers in 2013
B2B digital music firm Omnifone is celebrating its 10th anniversary with some new stats, including the claim that its cloud music platform has added 1.2m new subscribers since January this year. Its customers include Sony, BlackBerry, HP, Sirius XM and Omnifone’s own spin-off service Rara. What Omnifone isn’t saying, though, is how many total subscribers those services have: we don’t know how many there were in January or how many there are now, aside from the fact that there are 1.2m more of them.
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Windows Phone now bigger than BlackBerry (but still very small)
IDC has published its latest estimates for smartphone shipments in the first quarter of 2013. IDC pegs Android as taking a 75% share of smartphone shipments in Q1.
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BlackBerry taking BBM to iOS/Android, with BBM Channels for brands and artists
Yesterday saw BlackBerry unveil its latest smartphone, the keyboard-toting Q5, but there were also some interesting developments with its BBM messaging service.
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7digital inks QNX deal for in-car digital music
Another day, another in-car deal for a digital music company. This time it’s 7digital partnering with BlackBerry subsidiary QNX .
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BlackBerry shutting down BBM Music in June
At the recent launch of its BlackBerry 10 smartphones, BlackBerry declined to answer questions about whether its BBM Music service would be appearing on the new handsets.
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BlackBerry 10 launch spotlights new handsets, OS and music apps
Last night saw Research In Motion rebrand itself to BlackBerry, show off its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone software, and two new handsets: the all-touchscreen Z10 and the keyboard-toting Q10.
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RIM reveals BlackBerry 10 music partners
RIM is preparing for its big reveal of its new BlackBerry 10 platform and smartphones tomorrow, with entertainment a big part of its plans.