BlackBerry Shares Jump as Lenovo CEO Mentions Possible Deal

This may not be such a good idea from Blackberry's perspective. The Blackberry is used by all government officials , bankers and executives almost everywhere. Given the recent exposure of Chinese government's hacking attempts , it would be a terrible idea for Blackberry's servers to fall under the control of Chinese government . I am aware that Lenovo makes excellent products with a spotless record of respecting consumer privacy --- but I am not willing to give them the access to all communication between key officials and executives of the world as I firmly believe that the temptation would be too great for the Chinese officials to resist.

>“could possibly make sense, but first I need to analyze the market and understand what exactly the importance of this company is.”

That doesn't sound like it's being seriously considered to me.

I've always wondered if this type of speculation helps or hurts the chances of a deal (if the price runs before the offer is officially announced, then the suitor will need to pony up more cash)

Just saw Thorsten Heins talk last week, no way is he gearing up for a sellout.

But I'll leave this comment here as a reminder to self in case they do sell.

We have seen this movie before. Remember when HP bought Palm/WebOS? The intentions look good on paper but for a hardware company, it is hard to try and create an ecosystem by throwing money at it. And Blackberry is to even a pure software company its a mix of hardware, software and services, which would make it harder.

Lenovo has had good relationship with Microsoft, they should probably try and do what Nokia did.