Yet Another Rumor Surfaces About a RIM Sale

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RIM has reportedly hired on investment bank Goldman Sachs to explore strategic options.

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[darkavenger123]

A sales is logical for RIMs. They have failed on all accounts. They've failed to recapture their once dominant corporate market (losing to iPhone) and failed to gain any grounds in the consumer market and the PlayBook has already proven to be a failure. They should sell while somebody still view their technology and patents are still of value to other companies who can make use of it....

 

[rex86]

oh for god's sake just sell it already. It's dead, Jim.

 

[Guest]

A lot of companies would love to be in RIM's "dead" position, with no debt and high profitability.

Analysis, as always, have overreacted and so has the market. The company was overvalued but not to the point where it needs to drop 75%. But alas, mean reversion is usually anything but neat. We should see a healthy 25-30% gain on this one in the coming year as people come to their senses.

Hiring Goldman Sachs for anything is like hiring an arsonist to watch a warehouse full of timber. They "helped" Greece into the Euro zone by fudging the books through shady deals, helped crash the housing market and they've been there at every turn of every economic disaster the world has ever suffered. The only advice Goldman will give RIM is the one that provides GS with the highest possible fee, all other players of the deal be damned.

 

[classzero]

[citation][nom]Innocent_Bystander[/nom]A lot of companies would love to be in RIM's "dead" position, with no debt and high profitability.Analysis, as always, have overreacted and so has the market...[/citation]
I suppose customers have overreacted in purchasing devices that they want instead of RIM's?

 

[nehmeg]

In the USA I suppose! And since when the USA is the whole world???get your heads out of your own asses.

 

[mstrbass2000]

someone is gonna buy rim for its patent portfolio and hard assets (sat,name,cash) android is infringing on multiple companies patents and carriers are coughing up big bucks to multiple companies due to those infringments !!!

google needs the rim patents to help stave off some of them suits and microsoft would love to get their hands on them patents to destroy android,could be a bidding war coming shortly imo

 

[xjoedisorderx]

[citation][nom]darkavenger123[/nom]A sales is logical for RIMs. They have failed on all accounts. They've failed to recapture their once dominant corporate market (losing to iPhone) and failed to gain any grounds in the consumer market and the PlayBook has already proven to be a failure. They should sell while somebody still view their technology and patents are still of value to other companies who can make use of it....[/citation]

You clearly have not one single clue of what you're talking about. Maybe they have lost market share in the US but not in the WORLD. Your sheepish brain annoys the living hell out of me and considering even your biased tech websites even have giving the latest OS iteration of the "failed" playbook incredibly high regards. So please keep your comments to yourself since you don't want to get your head out of your ass.

 

[shqtth]

Apple should give up too. They will loose to Android? Hell, the whole world should five up because they will loose someone else. Investors are evil, they always want a company to give up too easy. Doesn't anyone believe in plan B? Just because Apple and Iphone are in a place of dominance, doesn't mean it will last. The mobile market changes so fast.