Veritas Makes a Takeover Offer for BlackBerry

Private equity firm Veritas Capital has made an offer to buy Canadian software company BlackBerry, Reuters reported Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. From the report: BlackBerry had said in May it would conduct a review of strategic alternatives, which could includes the possible separation of one or more of its businesses. Founded in 1984, the company currently makes software for cars and cybersecurity. It became popular for its ubiquitous business smartphones, toted by executives, politicians and legions of fans in the early 2000s. It pulled the plug on its smartphones business last year and has since been trying to sell its legacy patents related to its mobile devices.

BB still alive??

[iAmWaySmarterThanYou]

I used to trade their stock in the early pre-iPhone days but lost track of them after their phone market collapsed. I had assumed they'd gone out of business or been bought up years ago.

Have any of you even seen their current products, much less used them?

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[bobthesungeek76036]

I used to trade their stock in the early pre-iPhone days but lost track of them after their phone market collapsed. I had assumed they'd gone out of business or been bought up years ago.

Have any of you even seen their current products, much less used them?

https://www.blackberry.com/us/... [blackberry.com]

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[iAmWaySmarterThanYou]

Sure but have you used any of their current products?

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[daveron]

Does BlackBerry still make smartphones? On January 4, 2022, BlackBerry decommissioned the infrastructure and services used by our legacy software and phone operating systems. What does BlackBerry do now? BlackBerry is a software company focused on providing enabling technologies to ensure the safety and security of all the devices and systems businesses rely on. We are pioneers in cybersecurity, encrypted voice and digital communications, automotive safety, and innumerable connected and IoT systems and dev

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[Kernel Kurtz]

My BMW uses QNX. Does that count?

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[jonbryce]

Yes

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[EvilSS]

Have any of you even seen their current products, much less used them?

My current vehicle runs their QNX automotive system.

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[tlhIngan]

I used to trade their stock in the early pre-iPhone days but lost track of them after their phone market collapsed. I had assumed they'd gone out of business or been bought up years ago.

Have any of you even seen their current products, much less used them?

Cars run QNX because it's a safety oriented OS. QNX is also owned by BlackBerry.

So if you've used pretty much any car in the past 20 years, you would've been using their products.

They also make a GPS tracker for trailers for tracking purposes. This tracks

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[grogger]

They have remote device management software (what was BES and is now UEM), QNIX and had a lot of cash.

There are better ways to blow your tree fiddy.

[lusid1]

also TIL blackberry.com is still online.

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[Malays2b0wen]

"That isn't in any way tied to a dodgy chinese conglomerate." You can't take things at face value or really trust anything anymore. :-\ Globaliam is very far from holding hands together and singing kumbaya.

If it were Thanks Giving ..

[burni2]

.. I would sneak down the stairs and in a gush of lust of midnight snack hunger, I would pry the last shreds of meat from the turkey's carcass.

I can only say to Veritas, Bon Appetit!

dang

[awwshit]

Am I the only one that feels old reading this? What is next? Atari makes takeover offer for Tandy Corporation.

Re: dang

[EvilSS]

Well Atari is releasing a new console and new carts

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[Briareos]

You forgot the heavy air quotes around "Atari", or to add the prefix "The Company Wearing The Skin Of The Flayed Corpse Of"...