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RIMM CEO Mike Lazaridis Abruptly Terminates BBC Interview
An odd update for RIMM shareholders. In an interview with BBC Click, RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis, who has had quite a bit of trouble convincing the market about anything lately, apparently was unable to convince the interview host not to ask a set of questions relating to RIM security issues in India and the Middle East. As a result, Mike proceeded to simply walk out of the interview. Rather odd behavior for a CEO whose credibility level is already perceived as low to quite low by the market. Then again, we expect nothing less from the Chairman on April 27 during the first ever Fed press conference, when someone asks him what exactly the $130 billion or so in "Other Assets" on the Fed's balance sheet actually are.
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Society is wise to media, unlike recent decades.
If you can't control the message, don't deliver one.
We are changing very rapidly as a society, yes indeed. This is getting more interesting by the day.
Ack! RIMM job! Tppftph!
maybe he just really needed to go get another doughnut.
Is it just me, or does Lazaridis look like the head of police for Springfield in the Simpsons cartoons????
an old trick and a good trick
w a l k - a w a y
tell me he does not remind you of the sweaty character martin short use to play as a crooked business owner...only thing this guy is missing is the cigarette...
Congressman Pete Stark really knows how to walk away from an interview...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjbPZAMked0
Reminds me of Phil, Bam's crazy uncle.
Vito
Phil is his dad.
He is doing the RIGHT THING!!
CALL ME-- 1800 WALK AWAY
He should spoon with TEPCO CEO Masataka Shimizu
HAHAHA!!!
+20
"They" are either stupid or crazy to put Bernake in front of the press. Is Rolling Stone gonna be there? epic fail.
A cell next to Madoff sounds more appropriate.
what press???
Laz is cool, more people should take this approach with media scum.
(junked by media scum)
Not fair!!!!!
Did'nt Liesman say that recently, to Santelli? ;-)
Spalding told me RIMM is a great company. I TRUST him. After all, he's the one that "gave" us GLUU. And a few dozen others. But he never talks about the others. I wonder why?
Where is he these days?
I miss the comedy
Crying to himself as he searches the depths of the internet in the vain hope that something I said somewhere, once in the history of the Earth, that could somehow totally discredit me and everything I have ever said, on the paucity of a chance that taking me down would somehow elevate him.
Also, junking every comment that I make, like the jealous loser he is.
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Hey MachoMan, where you at dood?
This guy looks like Peter Griffin
Genius!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNrx2jq184
I sure hope the Fed's first press conference includes a question about Fed loans to the Housewives of Wall Street. Matt had a good time with this one.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout-20110411?page=1
Actually I don't blame Mr. Lizard at all. It's been quite the game here in India where RIM was THE goto company for corporate push-mail devices. The must have.
But Google/Android and Apple needed to win the smartphone wars. So RIMM has been given the RIM job here, over and over. All is not as it seems. It's a proxy corporate war as well as needing to keep some semblence of govt. snooping at bay.
I'm not a fan of any one of them, but it's been quite th emedia circus here. I guess RIMM's favoured status is up now that Android is ready.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/want-to-save-the-world-or-at-least-your-self/
I won't argue your points regarding the issues RIMM has faced in India. However that doesn't justify his behavior as a CEO and a representative of the company and ALL of it's shareholders. If I was a RIMM shareholder or employee I would be embarrassed by his behavior. His behavior was both disrespectful and a passive aggresive. Two character traits I certainly don't admire in my employees and I certainly wouldn't want in a CEO.
RIMM, once a market leader is now way behind the curve. I certainly wouldn't want this guy leading the turnaround.
i'm a passive-aggressive employee of yours.
F#ck YOU!
ORI,
Any idea what he meant at the end when he began to say" ...its a National Security........? Did I hear that right? Whose stinking security?
You heard right Coss. India Gov. has been demanding total Echelon like intrusion into RIMM servers. Co-locate them in India and give gov. full access.
The Indian ppolice state is so far beyond gone, it's not funny.
So, it is really a corporate war by .giv security rubbish proxy.
Again, no fan of his or RIMM as a company, but it's been a pro-android/apple move for sure here.
Quite the theater.
ORI
Yes, you heard right:
"... It's a 'National Security' issue ... You can't talk about that ... Turn that off ..."
Is that why the newly-elected President Obama was required to dump his 'Blackberry'? Makes you wonder who else is listening in on peoples' conversations/communications, doesn't it?
Guess which sweaty, clearly-nervous, CLEARLY-uncomfortable person's credibility just went straight down the toilet?
Too much pressure in Waterloo. Ballsilly would have jumped across the table and tore out the interviewer's heart.
ballsy's problems is too many pucks to the head
Nah Baldsilly would never do something like that and risk his toupe becoming unfastened.
To be fair, it sounded like a "have you stopped beating your wife" type question (although I could be wrong).
Michael Lazaridis is a genius and my favorite Greek Canadian entrepreneur. I'm long RIMM in a personal way because I bought the Torch last October. I know, the iPhone people will tell me it's so much better but I support my fellow Greeks and BBM rules!!! LOL! (to be honest, I received an iPod recently and love it!).
geniuses dont walk out on BBC...
''geniuses dont walk out on BBC...''
Why not? Does the BBC have a monopoly on wisdom and credibility??? Maybe he was having a bad day. Who knows, who cares?
AH HAAA HA HA HAAAAA HAAAA!!
Leo---
What you meant to say is, Lazaridis is a cocksucker for the India's Bureau of Information, but you had a hard time spitting it out 'cuz you were choking on Kalamata olive pits.
Leo: So he is your favourite "Greek" Canadian...do you have a favourite "just" Canadian? Enough of these damn hyponated people!
A story. My wife and I were at a party and spoke to another couple when the topic of nationality came up. I am 9th generation Canadian, my wife, British born, and the other couple said they were both Greek. My wife, who has visited Greece quite often, asked them where they were from. Why Toronto, they replied. They had never been to Greece but hoped to visit on their honeymoon. There parents were from Greece.
Not Canadian, where they were born but fucking Greek.
So Leo, some of us think these hyphens are a insult.
I hope you called them out on that. Honestly, I'm sick of how half the toronto radio stations are in spanish/mandarin/portuguese/italian/ etc etc
This is Canada...speak english or french?
More PC bullshit.
Pick a fucking team. Flip flopping poseurs.
Leo if you gonna invest my pension in this POS then I know your pension scheme is a scamm.
C'mon dude - they are more interested in hockey teams than running a company
test.test.
Is this thing on?
Damn clip wont play for me. Anyway RIMM has always been a Nasdaq scam slush fund, using stolen technology since their beeper days.
what exactly the $130 billion or so in "Other Assets" on the Fed's balance sheet actually are.
Shares of SPY, IWM, and XRT
They took unused lap dance vouchers from the banks as collateral, but don't worry, they're going to use them eventually...
I think those 'other asset's' are chuck e cheese token's Bob
they have no problems.....Celebrities use RIMM products
That line is so 3 years ago. Now they all have Droids.
'issue of national security'
i guess when you need to shut up, or do something unconstitutional, those words will do the trick.
WOW...I heard that too. He said it was an "issue of National Security", which tells me that they have a hole somewhere....and NSA knows all about it?
Since when is some CFO of a phone company in charge of matters of national security?
When his bunk in Yucca Mountain depends on it.
If that's where some of the elites plan to hole up during the next year or so, then one can only hope that these million year volcanic events are due to reoccur soon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain
since Obama insisted on using his BB after becoming President.
Since Goldman Sachs and JPM controlled congress and the executive branch.
Since the Patriot Act
One of the best long term shorts out there.
and just as interesting, GE finds it in their heart to return the $3.2 tax refund
http://www.cbs8.com/story/14437618/ge-to-return-32-billion-to-us-treasury
GE said the refund of the refund is a hoax
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-13/ge-says-report-on-returning-3-2-billion-tax-refund-to-treasury-is-a-hoax.html
someone speak out of turn or propaganda sputterings????
brilliant, a fake press release picked up by the AP forcing the great ImMelt to reitterate that his company will pay no tax
The issue is REALLY the new blackberry has security SO good these governments do not have the technology to intercept data and info off there transmissions. That is the deal.
He's a Canuck after all, don't expect too much.
Leo says he isn't just a Canuck, but a Greek Canuck. So you get Tziziki on your poutine.
So is Robbie Robertson, y'know, the guy from The Band who wrote the song from which your sobriquet is extracted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_They_Drove_Old_Dixie_Down
Why do you think it's OK to insult a whole people? Need an easy target since you can't get away with the "N word" anymore? Just guessin'
It's NOT FUNNY, Dude!
Yo Virggguuuullll
You nancy boy yankees best be careful.We Canadians are the nicest people around till you get our blood pressure up
You see the last time you yankees opened up your pie hole at us a 150 years ago we shoved our dicks down them and you went home crying.
Best be nice or that may happen again
Just saying
PS Go ask your military friends who play wargames with us. They can illuminate on something, there's a reason your guys need rockets cause your dresses will get dirty from bending over on the battlefield.
Like I said go ask a vet. It's subject they don;t liek to talk about. In fact I particiapted in one about 20 years ago. It was a riot, your girls ran so fucking hard the other way they sent us home so they wouldn't be embarassed any more.
Fuck your war games. 6 guys in detroit were shot in their car. The EMS never came. THey drove themselves to the po po station for help. But only one died. Better than expected.
Yeah, wargames.
You pussies can't even get guns for shit. The government in canuckistan has a hockey puck so far up your assholes, I'm surprized you can even breath.
Sounds more like bad marksmanship.
I'm surprized [sic] you can even breath [sic].
Hmmm ... 6 words and 2 spelling mistakes. I'm so surprised I can hardly breathe. (sarc/)
As bad as expected. How do you even get past the CAPTCHA, dude? Your bum-buddy have one of those new-fangled calculomaters?
Canada yeah!
Actually the problem RIM has is its too secure.
virgil served on the Danville train.. til Stonemans cavalry came and tore up the tracks again. Good song but don't infer that virgil condones the use of the N word as you suggest.. They could be singing about the current defeat of the US even.
defeat is defeat afterall. The song hasn't played in 30 years, too real and painful I guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMHyovwX7JM
Poker tell : as soon as he hears the dreaded words, his eyes glint and he looks to the right. very very easy to spot. i'd sell all RIMM if i had any.
Do you know Why CANADIANS love to fuck DOGGYSTYLE??? So they BOTH can watch the hockey game.....lol..
Love it. Go red wings.
Reggie Middleton has been calling for the eventual collapse of RIM ala Palm.
Looks like he will yet again be proven correct.
Keep up the great work, Reggie!
These guys walked around Missasuaga like they were gods. His partner went looking to buy a hockey team , took his eye off the ball, and AAPL passed them like a burnt out hooker.
Now they are a chapter 11 ready to happen. Flame OUT!
Look at these peacocks now, they look like they got ate by coyotes.
Lesson for budding entrepreneurs. Humility matters