BlackBerry two co-founder wants to bid for company

Right for Lazaridis NetEase technology news October 11, according to foreign media reports, the BlackBerry company two co-founder announced in Thursday, is interested in the acquisition of the once brilliant and in recent years the plight of smart phone manufacturers. BlackBerry co-founder Mack Lazaridis Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Flegkin (Douglas fregin), respectively, served as co-CEO and Vice president of operations for the BlackBerry Company. The two men met from grade five and started the BlackBerry Company's predecessor, RIM, while studying in college. They disclosed the information in a paper submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which now holds a total of about 8% per cent of the BlackBerry company, totalling 41.7 million shares. The two-owned investment companies have reached an agreement to "co-operate in an exclusive partnership to deal with acquisitions," the paper said. The acquisition may involve all or part of the assets and equity. "The two have hired Goldman Sachs, a prominent Wall Street investment bank, to assist with Centerview company. "In view of the recent news that the Board has formed a special committee to look for strategic options, the disclosure is considering all the possibilities of holding the shares, including, but not limited to, the acquisition of all shares not currently owned by the issuer," he said. The acquisition may be carried out by the disclosing person or with other interested investors, "the paper said. Lazaridis left the BlackBerry board this March, Flegkin retired from the BlackBerry in 2007 and is now the owner of the Quantum Valley investment firm, which specializes in projects on quantum computing. The BlackBerry company last month received a 4.7 billion-dollar takeover offer from Maple Letter finance (Fairfax Financial). Maple is the biggest shareholder of the BlackBerry, considering privatizing the smartphone maker. BlackBerry can consider other options before November 4, while Maple Finance and a group of investors can conduct due diligence and find money for the deal. Earlier reports said that Cerberus, the US private-equity firm, was also considering a bid, and technology companies such as Google, Cisco and SAP were also targeting the BlackBerry's assets, rumored to have been sold or spun off. After the publication of the document, the BlackBerry's Nasdaq-traded shares rose 2.1% per cent, closing up 1.11%, ending up at 8.20 dollars a share, still below the maple letter's $9 per share bid. Abinadab）