Blackberry in His Labyrinth - Global Investor

This past Monday two top executives left the company, while one of them was replaced amid uncertainty where is Blackberry, which seeks to re-enter the competition for the market of smartphones.

This comes amid a restructuring that began after the appointment of a new chief executive.

leaving the company are Kristian Tear, chief operating officer, and Frank Boulben, head of marketing, while James Yersh replace Brian Bidulka as chief financial officer.

movements has given amid rumors of interest from multiple other firms sell parts. However, e l directory rejected proposals BlackBerry asset because the company felt that split was not in line with the interests of shareholders.

After canceling plans to sell and assign a new CEO, the company recently chose 1,000 million through an offering of convertible notes by its largest shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings.

assets Blackberry range from devices and network assets, patents and software . Also, some of them are so interconnected that could lose value in a division of the company. Because this value that the company had also rumors that Facebook would be interested in acquiring the company, neither plan came to confirm.

is also important to note that although a division of portions of the firm was not given at the time, the decisions made by the new board for the future could include this possibility.

Blackberry continues its maze, trying to find the way out of the difficult situation in which business is located, while your competitors take the lead.

sales smartphones represented 55% of global mobile phone sales in the third quarter. The reason for this figure, according to a research firm quoted by Reuters, is that users in China and Latin America changed and upgraded technology to buy smart devices.

Samsung holds the first place, with a market share of 32.1% and sales of 80.36 million smartphones while Apple played along with sales 23.2% higher but with a drop in its market share from 14.3% to 12.1% yoy.

Lenovo took third place with a market share of 5.1% in the smartphone segment, ahead of LG Electronics and Huawei, which all face each dominate the Chinese market, which is in the midst of change between the old cell by the latest technology, a much higher proportion than in Latin America .

smartphones sold, 81.9% running with the Android operating system, Google, 12.1% use iOS (Apple) and 3.6% with Windows Mobile.

Blackberry is still far away, with a user base which decreased 1.8% from 5.2% in the third quarter of 2012.

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