BB ... another one ...  

    Posted by mla127 on 13th of May 2024 at 12:57 pm

    BB ... another one ...  

    Wait. Blackberry is still around?

    Posted by Trendie on 13th of May 2024 at 02:05 pm

    Wait. Blackberry is still around?  Woooooow. Thought that company would have gone belly up a decade ago.

    Yep, handset production died about

    Posted by mschwand on 13th of May 2024 at 02:35 pm

    Yep, handset production died about then, but BB may have pivoted successfully to medical/auto cloud encryption services, now in about 200M cars according to the press. The encryption tech was well respected, so has spent the last decade in meme-type speculation about what would come of it. 

    Yep, meme stock fave. The

    Posted by DigiNomad on 13th of May 2024 at 02:08 pm

    Yep, meme stock fave. The list of meme stocks is essentially a whos who of completely or mostly failed companies that are still trading for who know what reason (probably more expensive to clean up and remove than to just let die a slow death....like closing out an option that's only worth .05).

    BB I think was one of the many that took advantage of the last mania to sell into it and fleece the Apes for some capital to try some new ideas to get them back on track. AMC and GME were the poster children for fleecing the Apes, but they were by no means the only ones playing that game. 

    Speaking of Blackberry ...  Wanted

    Posted by mla127 on 13th of May 2024 at 02:17 pm

    Speaking of Blackberry ...  Wanted to watch it for awhile now ... still haven't took the time to do so ...

    Same here. My personal conspiracy

    Posted by mschwand on 13th of May 2024 at 02:43 pm

    Same here. My personal conspiracy theory is that BB failed to recognize the potential of phone entertainment b/c of the insane data rates charged by Canuck com monopolies at that time (and arguably still)— maybe the movie will tell me different! 

    I still want to see

    Posted by DigiNomad on 13th of May 2024 at 02:39 pm

    I still want to see "Dumb Money."  Fail on the algos for not recommending it to me for purchase / rent already. It took this post to remind me I wanted to see it..

    MPW another ape stock that

    Posted by steve on 13th of May 2024 at 01:01 pm

    MPW another ape stock that ran earlier 

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