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Mike Lazaridis creates Research in Motion
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RIM listed on TSX
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BlackBerry 850 is introduced. It's a pager whose keys inspired the name.
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534,000 subscribers globally
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Subscribers top 1 million
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First Blackberry with camera. Webster’s New World College Dictionary named “crackberry” the “New Word of the Year.”
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Steve Jobs of Apple unveils the iPhone
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By year-end, iPhone sales top Blackberry sales
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Newly-elected U.S. President Barack Obama says, “I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry. They’re going to pry it out of my hands.”
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By Fall, the numbers of users in the U.S. has peaked at 21 million — it’s downhill from here. The Blackberry is passed by Google’s Android
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BlackBerry’s hoped for saviour, the PlayBook tablet, is released to slow sales and criticism
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Cut 2,000 jobs, 10-times as many as its previous biggest layoff. Workforce is reduced to 17,000.
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Blackberry's Internet service suffers a massive outage
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79 million BlackBerry users globally but only 9 million in the United States; Stock price during the year tumbled 80%
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Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie resign as CEOs
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RIM reports first net loss in years
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Company changes its name from Research In Motion to BlackBerry
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250 employees cut from research and development
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Added layoff of 4,500 employees by end of 2013, about 40 percent of the workforce. 6,750 employees will remain
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Fairfax Financial offer US$9 per share subject to conditions that could drive the price lower