T-Mobile (TMUS) Tests Just How Loyal BlackBerry (BBRY) Users Are
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Facebook's WhatsApp Deal is No Windfall for BlackBerry (BBRY), Jefferies' Misek Says
February 20, 2014 1:22 PM ESTJefferies analyst Peter Misek weighed in on BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) amid Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp.
Misek notes that WhatsApp was bought for ~$42/user, which is above their BlackBerry SOTP base-case valuation estimate for BBM of $30/user. However, he believes WhatsApp's scale (450M users vs. 40M iOS/Android BBM users) and network effects warrant a higher... More
BlackBerry (BBRY) CEO Chen 'Outraged' About T-Mobile (TMUS) Comments
February 19, 2014 7:17 AM ESTBlackBerry (Nasdaq: BBRY) is already having a tough time winning over the U.S. consumer and lack of carrier support won't help out that cause.
That's why CEO John Chen is irate.
Last week, T-Mobile (NYSE: TMUS) sent an email to BlackBerry users, encouraging them to switch to the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone 5. BlackBerry then sent several emails and Twitter posts to T-Mobile CEO John Legere, kindly explaining why that was a bad thing... More
