[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

Fairfax holds the debt with absolutely zero risk,.and is influencing it's use. If I were to guess, (hardly), that money was never available to be used. just your averaged, everyday, shakedown.

When you are desperate, you take what you can get... bottom line if not for Fairfax, where do you think BlackBerry would be today?

They had already been offering the company to anyone they could... Money was being burned like there was no tomorrow and Thor had bet big on BB10... huge hardware commitments.

[abwan11]

When will they disclose,why theres 22 quarters of re organization expenses? they haven't missed a quarter, it's dwindled down to a nice round million a qtr now. I guess will have to hear about it through market watch.

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[abwan11]

When you are desperate, you take what you can get... bottom line if not for Fairfax, where do you think BlackBerry would be today?

They had already been offering the company to anyone they could... Money was being burned like there was no tomorrow and Thor had bet big on BB10... huge hardware commitments.

The short answer,
Blackberry would have been gaap profitable 6 quarters ago.
All else being the same,with no debt,

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[abwan11]

The SA article says it all, the debt is and has been toxic to the company and its ability to progress, the reason it was issued has proven to be unreasonable and unnecessary.

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[Corbu]

https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2019...bile-endpoints

W Hoa, TGIS, La Emperor and 4 others like this.

[W Hoa]

BlackBerry Intelligent Security provides real-time risk analysis

https://www.itwire.com/security/blac...-analysis.html

[drobbie]

BlackBerry Intelligent Security provides real-time risk analysis

https://www.itwire.com/security/blac...-analysis.html

AI - wait for someone to highlight the bypass

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

I've noticed that even Windows has changed daily patches for their Virus & Threat Protection to Security Intelligence updates.... seems that AI is the buzz word of the day.

[smithm565]

Protecting Governments with BlackBerry Intelligent Security:

[smithm565]

[Corbu]

OT:
Former BB VP Sandeep Chennakeshu leaving AMD after 8 months on the job
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-r...ship-Team.html

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

OT:
Former BB VP Sandeep Chennakeshu leaving AMD after 8 months on the job
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-r...ship-Team.html

Per an interview he did with the Economic Times of Inida, he must have been someone the board was asking for advice from before Chen was officially hired...

"I have been in BlackBerry since August of last year (2014) as an employee, but before that I started in November of 2013. I began analysing BlackBerry in the September of 2013. I spent about three months analysing it, then there were six months of restructuring, then I took over this new division called BlackBerry Technology Solutions."

But bottom line what he did at BlackBerry... "My business is completely independent of the devices" and "We have QNX, Certicom which is cryptography, RF antenna tuning, IoT and then we have basically the patent portfolio that we licence. We have 40,000 patents which we license. So, this is kind of a new business."

[Bacon Munchers]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/resea...html?.tsrc=rss

BlackBerry Cylance Researchers Document Increased Risk to Companies and the Public

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BLACK HAT USA 2019 -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced that new research from the BlackBerry® Cylance® Threat Intelligence Team has uncovered a trove of highly sensitive data. Included in the report is confidential information detailing aspects of a country's civilian air traffic control system in a semi-public malware repository, the apparent by-product of penetration testing, one of a number of startling findings.


Not sure what to make of this. Seems positive, but looks to open a Pandora's box of chatter.

PS - if the SP stays here, I will load up on my fourth block...

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/resea...html?.tsrc=rss

BlackBerry Cylance Researchers Document Increased Risk to Companies and the Public

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BLACK HAT USA 2019 -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today announced that new research from the BlackBerry® Cylance® Threat Intelligence Team has uncovered a trove of highly sensitive data. Included in the report is confidential information detailing aspects of a country's civilian air traffic control system in a semi-public malware repository, the apparent by-product of penetration testing, one of a number of startling findings.


Not sure what to make of this. Seems positive, but looks to open a Pandora's box of chatter.

PS - if the SP stays here, I will load up on my fourth block...

With the visit us at booth #514 , it sounds like standard PR. Not saying Cylance doesn't have potential, just that I wouldn't bet too much on it yet. There are IT people that like Cylance, there are IT people that don't anymore (before BlackBerry). But by most accounts Cylance is a supplement product not a replacement. My worry is the companies doing the traditional protection... are also now doing Intelligent protection.

Will take time to see who offers the best protection.... and value.

[smithm565]

Cylance Protect AV vulnerability patched

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/secu...ility-patched/

[Corbu]

La Emperor, rarsen and world traveler and former ceo like this.

[EchoTango]

Cylance Protect AV vulnerability patched

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/secu...ility-patched/

From the attached article :

"Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute’s CERT Coordination Center is (?) issued patch for a recently disclosed vulnerability in Cylance Protect."

It seems Carnegie Mellon is now modifying Cylance software, in spite of their poor grammar.

I very much doubt this is true and so, the rest of this article should be viewed with some degree of skepticism.

[W Hoa]

I'm curious to see if this news gives BB's share price some lift

Report: Broadcom and Symantec deal imminent
If a report from The Wall Street Journal published after market close today is accurate, semiconductor specialist Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) and cybersecurity company Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) are on the brink of a buyout deal.

The article, citing "people familiar with the matter," has it that the two companies are close to signing an agreement under which Broadcom would purchase Symantec's enterprise business. According to those sources, such a deal could value the Symantec asset at roughly $10 billion.

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

I'm curious to see if this news gives BB's share price some lift

Broadcom has been focused on pushing into the "lucrative software arena"... Combining their recent purchase of CA Technologies with the Symantec Enterprise division will make them a big player.

Wonder if their chip business is really doing that bad, or they just had that much cash laying around? They are doing what Chen is doing, only on a much grander scale.

[FeitaInc]

don't know if it has been that way for a while, but BB´s homepage is looking better than ever. And good to see that have stopped trying to coin a new term (aka Enterprise of Things).

[rarsen]

Info of interest from other site:

Global smartphone shipments fall for seventh consecutive quarter in Q2, even with limited impact from US Huawei ban
https://technology.ihs.com/616273/gl...-us-huawei-ban
'The other maker that showed positive growth in the quarter was TCL Alcatel. The company shipped 3.8 million units, up from 3.2 million in Q2 2018 – an increase of 16 percent.'

[W Hoa]

BlackBerry rethinks security for the AI age - and the results are promising.

BlackBerry this week announced their AI-Powered Intelligent Security product, and I’m very impressed, and I wish we’d had this decades ago.

https://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs...he-ai-age.html

[Dunt Dunt Dunt]

BlackBerry rethinks security for the AI age - and the results are promising.



https://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs...he-ai-age.html

I agree about the wish we had this sooner.

But the more I look at AI Security, the less relevance I see for Cylance today. They were going strong a few years ago, but then they stopped being open and sharing and prices went up, and that affected how many in IT viewed them (little over a year ago... long before BlackBerry). And now just about everyone has or is moving to have an Intelligent solution in their package.

So I'm not sure Cylance on it's own is going to be the huge growth product some were hoping for. It's more likely that the technology will be integrated and used to help existing products (UEM, QNX... ) stay relevant... still a good thing for shareholders.

Someone hoping for BlackBerry to make it back to $12 - $15 a share is a few years should be happy. Someone hoping for $30 - $50 a share in a few year won't.

[Chr0nos]

Need to post this somewhere and thought this would be a safe location:

Reviewing and combining much of the resent, publicly available short sale data, fail to deliver (FTD) data, stock trade data, option trade data, and 13F filings. In one instance, appears to be some rather interesting trading activity surrounding a recent rumor, short exempt volumes, specifically on 6/20, the 6/21 8.5 calls, and a large amount of FTDs that seem to have been closed after the drop on ER, 6/26 & 6/27. Connecting a web on msg bds & financial media. Forwarding this info onto BB and proper authorities.

[abwan11]

All roads lead home. You'll find bb at the end of that rope. This is one of the most corrupt management's in existence.

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