Daily 411 – BlackBerry finds a buyer
The 411 is your daily dose of news relating to online culture! Oh Em Gee, smartphone manufacturer Blackberry has officially gotten acquisition offer worth $4.7 billion. Bittersweet feelings over here (even though I’ve never been a crackberry user myself) just cause I feel like Canadian innovation is getting…well, unfortunately what it deserves. Let’s consider for a moment that at its peak in 2008, when Blackberry was the BIG player in corporate email and Apple was just launching its game-changing iPhone, the company was worth $80 billion. Ouch.
Here are some links to web-related happenings you NEED to know about:
Canada’s Fairfax offers to acquire BlackBerry in $4.7 billion deal [PCWorld]
Google Project elevates Street View with glorious travel photography [PSFK]
Abercrombie & Fitch does parody of “What Does the Fox Say?” feat. Many Six-Packs [AdWeek]
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