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The big BlackBerry buyout is off and its CEO gets the boot
Sorry, Thorsten. (Image: screenshot from Youtube) Remember Fairfax Financial’s ballyhooed $4.7 billion deal to buy (and thereby save) BlackBerry? Well, it’s not happening. The Canadian insurance...
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World’s Biggest Bookstore has been sold to the developer behind the Four...
(Image: Steve Harris) First it was Sam the Record Man. Then Honest Eds. Now, yet another iconic local retailer is packing it in. Come February, the World’s Biggest Bookstore will be ceding its prime...
View ArticleVIDEO: check out the flashy new Dreamliners that Air Canada will be flying in...
Pearson Airport is newly swank-ified and Air Canada will soon have some fancy jets to match. This spring, the airline is getting its hands on 15 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, a fleet that will rise to 37 by...
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Five things we learned from Bloomberg Businessweek‘s history of...
(Image: langleyo) These days, the news out of Waterloo is almost uniformly bad. BlackBerry‘s new line of smartphones bombed quickly after being released early this year, leading to about a billion...
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WestJet makes a passive-agressive non-bid bid for access to the island airport
The island airport, from above. (Image: sean hill) The island airport makes some people very, very angry, but for WestJet CEO Gregg Saretsky, the feeling is probably more like mild despair, perhaps...
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BlackBerry’s latest setback: no more Alicia Keys
(Image: BlackBerry: m lobo; Keys: Walmart) So much for that branding exercise. About a year ago, when it was getting ready to launch its new line of phones, BlackBerry announced R&B singer Alicia...
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BlackBerry is suing Ryan Seacrest
(Image: Courtesy of Typo Products) Having broken up with one celebrity, BlackBerry is now suing another. The Canadian Press reports that the Waterloo-based smartphone maker has filed a lawsuit against...
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Toronto’s first Bitcoin ATM opens to the public in a few days
The Bitcoin ATM. (Image: Reddit Bitcoin/Imgur) Bitcoin has a reputation as a shady crypto-currency, beloved by internet drug pedlars and high-risk investors looking to cash in on its famously unstable...
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Rogers is (still) considering launching a Netflix rival
It looks like Rogers could be getting serious about launching an online streaming package to rival Netflix. According to a report in the online trade magazine Cartt.ca (whose paywalled story was...
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How the weakening loonie is about to make life more expensive
(Image: bgilliard) When this sentence was written, the value of the Canadian dollar was hovering around 92 cents U.S. That’s the lowest the loonie has sunk since the first year of the financial crisis....
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How weather-driven flight delays feed Pearson Airport’s boredom economy
Stranded passengers aren’t entirely bad for business at Pearson. (Image: Richard Hsu) There are few things more boring than waiting at an airport, the sterile doctor’s office of the travel industry....
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BlackBerry is doing slightly less terribly now, thanks to the U.S. Department...
(Image: langleyo) When last we checked in on BlackBerry, the company was hemorrhaging money and alienating celebrities—but you know what happens when something hits rock bottom? It bounces. Bloomberg...
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BlackBerry is trying to prevent Ryan Seacrest from selling an iPhone accessory
(Image: Courtesy of Typo Products) BlackBerry has spent much of the past year trying desperately to make its phones seem more like iPhones, so one can only imagine how troubling it must be to...
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Toronto Life magazine launches a new iPad app
Toronto Life’s Best Doctors issue hits newsstands today, but iPad owners won’t need to walk to Gateway to get their copy—our brand new iPad edition is rolling out simultaneously. Toronto Life’s free...
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Toronto to get lots more rich people (but not as many as London)
(Image: elPadawan) Global real-estate consultancy Knight Frank doesn’t use the phrase “rich people” in its annual report on worldwide wealth distribution; it prefers the politically correct term...
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Wind Mobile is now worthless (on paper, at any rate)
(Image: dalmond) Wind Mobile, the upstart telco that tried to lure wireless customers with low prices and easy subscription terms, is now worth precisely nothing—at least, according to the latest...
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BlackBerry’s new comeback plan? Stickers
(Image: langleyo) Struggling Waterloo-based smartphone maker BlackBerry has spent the past two years churning through resurrection plan after resurrection plan in an attempt to regain market share lost...
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Rogers to the CRTC: take pity on us
Rogers is in hearings with the CRTC today, negotiating for renewals of 17 of its television broadcast licenses. Unsurprisingly, the media corporation is trying to make the case that some regulatory...
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PHOTO: The World’s Biggest Bookstore’s sign comes down
(Image: Kathy Vey) Earlier this afternoon, a crew was in the middle of removing the final “e” from the exterior of the former World’s Biggest Bookstore, at Yonge and Edward streets. It’s the final step...
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From now on, we buy our smut from Rupert Murdoch: Torstar is selling Harlequin
(Image: Murdoch: David Shankbone) Harlequin—international romance-novel publisher, ripper of a million bodices—is based in Toronto and owned by Torstar, the Toronto Star‘s parent company. Except now,...
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