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Losing the Signal : The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry

by Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff
Losing the Signal : The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry - Thryft
Losing the Signal : The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry - Thryft
  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Shortlist (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Losing the Signal : The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry

by Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff
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ISBN: 9781250060174
Authors: Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Date of Publication: 2015-05-26
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Economics, Biographies & Memoirs, History, Business
Related Topics: Biography, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Management
Goodreads rating: 3.98
(rated by 4825 readers)

Description

In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is less than one percent. What went so wrong?Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed; instead, the rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway.With unprecedented access to key players, senior executives, directors, and competitors, Losing the Signal unveils the remarkable rise of a company that started above a bagel store in a small Canadian city and went on to briefly control one half of the smartphone market. At the heart of the story is an unlikely partnership between a visionary engineer, Mike Lazaridis, and an aggressive Harvard Business School grad, Jim Balsillie. Together, they engineered a pioneering pocket e-mail device that became the tool of choice for CEOs and world leaders. The partnership enjoyed only a brief moment on top of the world, however. At the very moment BlackBerry was ranked the world's fastest-growing company, internal feuds and chaotic growth crippled the company as it faced its gravest test: Apple and Google's entry into the mobile phone market.Expertly told by acclaimed journalists Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, this is an entertaining, whirlwind narrative that goes behind the scenes to reveal one of the most compelling business stories of the new century.
 
  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Shortlist (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.