Investors want BlackBerry split after acquisition

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There were already several parties have shown interest for BlackBerry to take over. However, it is uncertain whether the company will continue to exist in its current form: many ge lwa nteresseerde parties would the company want to split.

Reuters reports that many private equity investors, the Canadian company would want to split because the BlackBerry-maker so more would be worth. The investors would part with the operating system and the well-known chat application BBM separately want to sell and also the patentenportfolio would los be sold.

Among the interested parties is also the largest shareholder of BlackBerry, Fairfax Financial Holdings, which is ten percent of the company. Together with other investors, will Fairfax the smartphonefabrikant of the stock exchange to a private company of the company. Last week did Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners this with computer manufacturer Dell. Also a Canadian pension fund would be with an other investor, the BlackBerry as a whole want to take.

In early september, reported the Wall Street Journal that the board of directors of BlackBerry the company as soon as possible would like to sell. Then went there are also rumors that the company share would be sold. The main reason for the sale are the bad results of the past years. BlackBerry has a lot of market share lost to iOS and Android.