RIM's current state seems to have started to disturb the peace of the shareholders. Especially after RIM's stock price declined by 20% to below $ 28, the lowest in five years. Overall since February, RIM shares have tumbled by 60% makes it to lose billions of dollars of market value.
Due to these circumstances, some shareholders begin to sell RIM shares to reduce the losses further. According to Bloomberg, Jarisloswky Fraser is one of RIM's largest shareholders had taken off his half-RIM shares. While the other shareholders to give 6 months for RIM to fix this situation before they followed step Fraser.
A total of 14 analysts began cutting its target price of RIM's original estimate. Brian Modoff of Deutsche Bank cut the rim of the original $ 45 to just $ 28. JP Morgan cut the value of RIM from 'neutral' to 'overweight'. Generally they regretted later than RIM in updating the product portfolio to compete with Apple iPhone and Android based phones. Playbook 4G is expected to release this summer seemed to be delayed until the autumn. RIM now begin to compare the situation with Nortel Networks, one of the giants of Canadian ex went bankrupt to sell the entire company's assets. RIM accompany today is Nokia still have not been able to increase its sales as its heyday before.
Brian Modoff of Deutsche Bank also questioned why RIM was led by two people. He suggested RIM should be led by one person so I can focus more on promoting the company. Although RIM is in the hands of two men could record growth and expand their business. Seen from an increasing number of employees 3,000 people from 14,000 years ago to 17,000.
However, RIM is still able to print recorded sizable gains. At the beginning of the quarter yesterday Playbook 500,000 units have been sold, and probably will multiply if it is go to Indonesia because of the name of the Blackberry is still a guarantee of success in the homeland. RIM's global revenues also increased by 67% although for some people these values are still not enough for RIM.
What is the actual decline in value of RIM's stock today? In the United States stock market, RIM shares fell $ 7.58 to $ 27.75, while in Canada RIM's stock fell $ 7.13 to $ 27.24.
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RIM has released on 19 April 2011 Playbook ago and within a month's Playbook has sold 250,000 units. The amount is equal to the sale of Motorola Xoom for 2 months since its launch on 24 February last. Yes, Motorola CEO Sanjay Cha on April 28, then claims to have sold 250,000 units Xoom. This means RIM is doing their work 2x better than Motorola in selling their first tablet.
RIM releases Playbook with 3 different models according to the size of its memory, 16GB, 32Gb and 64GB. Of the three models, the 64GB version is the most widely sold 84% of the model is already sold, followed by the 32GB version with 71%, and 14% of the 16GB model has been sold. 16GB model is a version of the least likely because it has sold at least as well as the memory is a problem in the software that makes RIM had to pull back 1,000 units Playbook 16GB some time ago.
Despite having a less good early reviews, it seems not discourage prospective buyers to choose Playbook tablet than other tablets. Unfortunately it did not happen to Xoom that seems difficult to attract potential buyers. This is according to analysts because the Motorola too soon release a tablet based Honeycomb when the OS is still unstable and a lot of bugs. Not to mention the sudden crash problems that still exist in the Honeycomb. Still, Google has released an update 3.1 for increased performance and capabilities Honeycomb that hopefully can make the OS more stable.
Not the first time we see a BlackBerry phone apparition latest full touch screen that originally referred to as the Storm 3. Now the phone is known berkodenama Touch BlackBerry 9860 is re-emerging Monza appearance with a more detail / closeup.
The picture shows that these phones have the new button arrangements, while the second photo shows the BlackBerry OS build new 7 which shows the version 7.0.0.74. New button is also visible that normally colorless green and red on the send and end buttons (just like the BlackBerry Bold Touch).
It's just that this phone is not yet officially announced by RIM, but the view is increasingly clear bocorannya likely will not be long. Is BlackBerry Touch Monza become one of your coveted mobile phone in this year? BlackBerry user base it should not be underestimated in Indonesia, we'll see progress.
Microsoft's speculation about buying RIM this could be pushed lately after failure Playbook print surprises in the market and the company which manufactures the Blackberry announcement about plans to update its smartphone products the old version, has lowered the interest of investors.
Speculation was making strengthened by the presence of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Annual Conference BlackBerry World for users, developers and partners held in Florida this week, RIM.
Although RIM smartphone revealed his version of the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 more thinner, multi-platform solution that offered the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution, the new BlackBerry operating system, not easy to change things. In addition, a Canadian wireless telecommunications giant announced it would update its smartphone devices, especially older versions.
Analysts said Microsoft CEO's presence in the BlackBerry World conference suggests important things that will terjado in the next few months.
Analysts also said if RIM's market value - about $ 24 billion - continues to drop, and then the value of BlackBerry manufacturer will only reach U.S. $ 15 billion. In the meantime, said Harry Wang, Research Director Mobile at Parks Associates, as quoted Magazine PC, Microsoft currently pocketing cash cash of U.S. $ 48 billion, sehingganilai RIM potentially slipping to as low as U.S. $ 15 billion, would attract the attention of software companies that.
Conversely, close competitor RIM has a market value of more than U.S. $ 320 billion.
Create Microsoft this opportunity very attractive interest following the start of any change of use of desktop computers to laptops and now to smartphones and tablets. If you want to survive, Microsoft should start exploring the mobile world and this is indicated by the launch of Windows 7 Phone and cooperation with Nokia.
Based on a report from Digitimes, RIM has started to do the full production of tablets Playbook. Production is centered in Taiwan by Quanta with the number between 150,000 to 200,000 units per month. This figure is below initial estimates RIM production reaches one million units until March, when the global release executed.
Tablet production is conducted strictly and centered in Taiwan to avoid cloning effort of the Chinese producers. Thus, other companies could not trace the initial production / blueprint specifications of this product so that this tablet does not leak before the launch. RIM might have to increase production if the market is asking for the Quanta production capacity is still insufficient.
Blackberry Playbook will be launched first in the United States in about March continued expansion into international markets in the next month. At the time of tablet was estimated as Motorola's Android-based Honeycomb Xoom also been sliding followed iPad 2 in April.
No secret that tablets made by RIM, BlackBerry Playbook will be available for the public later this year. Apparently, Indonesia had the honor to welcome Playbook tablets, the article is RIM's first tablet landed in Bali after a new show in the United States.
With this, Bali became the first region in Asia that visited the event BlackBerry Playbook BlackBerry Developer Conference 2011 Asian held at the Bali International Expo, Nusa Dua. Tablets first appeared in the carpet BlackBerry DevCon 2010 and then held in San Francisco, USA. It was the visitors who come can only be satisfied with a peek and could not hold it directly.
This tablet could be worth trying a new gadget lovers at CES 2011 in Las Vegas early last January, it just has to go through a fairly long queue. Managing Director of RIM Southeast Asia, Gregory Wade said tablet is suitable for individual users or organizations. BlackBerry Playbook claimed to have web browsing capabilities are impressive, true multi-tasking, high performance and have a system of strict security.
Playbook has brought dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, two HD-capable cameras front and back, five-finger multi-touch capabilities, coupled with QNX operating system which makes it other than the other.
