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RIM co-CEOs resign

Flagging smartphone manufacturer RIM has named Thorsten Heins CEO following a management shake-up that saw co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis step down. Balsillie will remain a member of the board, while Lazaridis will serve as Vice Chair of the board’s Innovation Committee – offering strategic counsel to help promote the BlackBerry brand. “There comes a time in the growth of every successful company when the founders recognize the need to pass the baton to new leadership,” co-founder Mike Lazaridis said in a statement . “Jim and I went to the Board and told them that we thought that time was now.” Calls for Balsillie and Lazaridis to step down came following a difficult year at RIM – competition from Apple and Android ate into BlackBerry’s market share, and the company reported a slump in profits in its Q3 results. Investor patience also wore thin following a series of PR fails – most notably the BBM crash in October – and the poorly-selling BlackBerry PlayBook did little to impress shareholders following its launch. “Thorsten has demonstrated throughout his tenure at RIM that he has the right mix of leadership, relevant industry experience and skills to take the company forward,” Lazaridis said.

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BlackBerry profits slump

BlackBerry makers Research In Motion has released its third quarter fiscal numbers, revealing a 6 per cent slump in profits compared with the same period last year. The flagging company reported profits of $265 million (

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Bing is using all its Efforts to take the Number 1 Search Engine Spot

Since its inception, Microsoft’s Bing, has been doing all it can to take Google off that number 1 search engine spot. Bing first differentiated itself form Google by advertising its engine as a decision engine implying that other search engines only cause one to get lost in the links. Bing has also promoted this slogan on commercials and television shows like the Colbert Report. Now it’s invading phones and the Blackberry is one of their first targets.

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Google Sued by Woman Hit While Walking on Highway

Search Engine Land reports that a Los Angeles-area woman has sued Google after being hit by a car while walking on the side of a rural highway in Utah earlier this year. Lauren Rosenberg is suing Google for more than $100,000 in punitive damages, claiming that the directions she was given by Google Maps on her Blackberry told her to walk on a road that turned out to be unsafe for pedestrians.

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