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Market: TSX, NASDAQ
Sector: Telecommunications Equipment
EPIC: BB
Latest Price: 14.44  (-4.56% Descending)
52-week High: 17.80
52-week Low: 6.18
Market Cap: 7,438.62M
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Blackberry
ca.blackberry.com

Blackberry is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, Blackberry provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, short message service (SMS) messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications.

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RIM shares rally ahead of BB10 launch

21st Jan 2013, 3:45 pm by Deborah Bacal
Its stock was lately up by 11% in late afternoon trade, at $17.44, at one point touching $18.38. Its stock was lately up by 11% in late afternoon trade, at $17.44, at one point touching $18.38.

Research In Motion (TSE:RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM) shares surged Monday, days ahead of the launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system, on which many analysts have taken a bullish stance. 

After a disastrous year that saw many smartphone users and corporations drop the Blackberry in favour of Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone and Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android, RIM is hoping that the launch of its new BlackBerrys will help it claw its way back into the market and make it even more popular in emerging markets, where BlackBerrys are already the preferred choice. 

The release of the new Blackberry 10 (BB10) operating system phones is scheduled for January 30. 

Its stock was lately up by 11% in late afternoon trade, at $17.44, at one point touching $18.38. 

Traders were bumping the stock higher after reports that CEO Thorsten Heins said the company was keeping the door open to new alliances, which includes a potential sale of its hardware business and the licensing of its software. 

It also got suppport after analyst Peter Misek of Jefferies & Co. on Friday upgraded his recommendation to “buy” and boosted his share price target to $19.50 (U.S.) from $13 previously. 

The upgrade is the latest in a series of bullish analyst reports, as app developers and carriers are showing greater-than-expected support for the upcoming BlackBerry 10 system. 

Misek also cited the fact that RIM plans to enable corporate email to Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhones and the devices that use Google's Android system. 

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