Posted by : Cyber Freak
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Lenovo has registered a clear interest in a possible partnership. This comes at a time when Lenovo is looking to add a strong smartphone portfolio to go with its computing devices. Lenovo is currently on target to become the largest PC maker in the world. RIM, on its part, is fairly confident of a successful BlackBerry 10 launch, both for the hardware and on the critical operating system side.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Lenovo Chief Financial Officer Wong Wai Ming told Bloomberg, "We are looking at all opportunities - RIM and many others. We'll have no hesitation if the right opportunity comes along that could benefit us and shareholders." This news was the latest good news for
RIM, as stocks went up 3% immediately. Incidentally, the same stocks had
seen a 13 month high when the CEO announced they are open to an alliance.
However, any partnership or deal for RIM
would not be very easy, whoever the other party may be. One of the
reasons for that is that Canada considers RIM as a “crown jewel”. After
Heins’ comments earlier this week, Canada's Industry Minister Christian
Paradis told Reuters that Canada may even go to the extent of reviewing a
sale of RIM's handset business if such a deal was proposed.
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