Is BlackBerry finally dead? asked Vauhini Vara at the New Yorker. The Canadian smartphone-maker said this week that it had agreed to go private and sell itself to the investment firm Fairfax Financial Holdings for $4.7 billion. "Certainly, the new owners could potentially milk BlackBerry's existing customers for revenue as long as they can" — the company still has 72 million users. But the device's heyday is long gone, supplanted by iPhones and Android devices. ...



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