|
Research in Motion the #1 Fastest Growing Company in the World Says Fortune Magazine By Kevin Michaluk | 18 Aug 2009 01:18 | 
19 comments
Research in Motion's Co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie must feel on top of the world right now having been named the #1 Fastest Growing Company in the World by Fortune Magazine. Making the jump into the consumer space with the introduction of the BlackBerry Pearl was huge for the company (right product at the right time), and following it up with the uber-popular BlackBerry Curve and now newer next-generation devices like the Bold, Storm and Tour have allowed the company to increase its grasp of the growing US smartphone market up to a whopping 56%. While being #1 is sweet, it's also a tricky position to be in as it's impossible to continue the skyrocketing growth forever. So to the boys and girls in Waterloo and working for RIM around the globe... we hope you celebrated hard tonight, as the smartphone competition out there is getting fiercer by the minute and there's no shortage of work to be done. We have faith in you... let's keep it locked at #1! [ Source ]
Filed Under:
News & Rumors
|
Digg
Facebook
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
| See All CrackBerry Articles |
| ADVERTISEMENT | |
|
|
|
Create your own Wallpapers with the
CrackBerry.com Wallpaper Maker Tool. Once you have yours made, you can share it with the
CrackBerry Community by adding it to our Wallpaper Gallery!
 | |||||
You can visit CrackBerry.com on your BlackBerry for mobile versions of our Blogs, Forums, and App store. There is also a handy link directory which features hundreds of Berry-Friendly sites.
Install the CrackBerry.com shortcut and you will never be more than a click away!
|
 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
The names RIM and BlackBerry are registered Trademarks of Research in Motion Limited. |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Congrats RIM!
Woooo!
Is to own a studio and make movies ;) LOL
You didn't even mention that i sent in the article...
hey kjdoug... i saw this article went it went across the wires earlier today...meant to blog it sooner but was out for the night. haven't even checked the tip box in the past few hours. thanks for sending it in though. we get a ton of readers sending in articles all the time, plus we're pretty much on top of things 24/7, so we can't do too many thanks on blog posts or else we'd be listing 100 names sometimes! don't take offense, we appreciate when you and anybody/everybody sends stuff in! MUCH THANKS always!!
Makes us developers feel good about making apps for this device =)
It's ok Kevin...I was kiddin...but if you really feel bad you can send me one of those Storm 2's :P
Congrats RIM, now get the fuck to work on some more handsets.
Think revolutionary, not evolutionary.
congrats!!! keep up the good work
No wonder they haven't been able to put out a good OS update for the Storm, they're to busy celebrating. I'm not sure they were quite ready for this rapid growth, we'll see how they adapt.
Excellent work well deserved! Congratulation
research in motion
good job RIM. let's try to stay number one eh?
RIM is The 1....
cj
With all the media talk and print out there about the iPhone it is always amazing to see these type of numbers. The iPhone success cannot be disputed, but when they add up ALL of the sales for ALL BlackBerry models, there is no other number One.
Also, I can agree with some of the complaints some members have about the dated OS, the UI improvement possibilities, ect., but look who is still number 1 in smartphone sales. And now the fastest growing company in the world.
This does mean that they will need to step it up in Waterloo to maintain thier position and continue to attract new customers arund the world.
Congratulations RIM! Keep up the good work!
I wonder what Berrys the co-CEOs each use ... CONGRATS RIM!!
The NHL might see this and allow Jim to get that hockey team he's always wanted.
RIM FTW!!!!
How do you feel Mr. iPhone? BB rocks, hey lets all buy stocks this week.
Man...we could all be rich now. RIM's stock was down and out @ $22 USD right when the stock market went to crap. Now, it's $77 USD. That is TWO AND A HALF times more in LESS THAN A YEAR, and RIM's market share also went up by 150% (one and one half times) reaching a STUNNING 56%.
All this during the intense competition from Apple's iPhone, which makes RIM's story even more improbable.
And no, buying stock now will be of no use, as RIM cannot possibly continue wiping out competitor after competitor. You might gain some percentage points, but the big winner in stocks none of us can ever be with RIMM (<-- NYSE symbol). lol...
We should have bought stock in the company when it was worth 22%. That's what I am pissed about not doing myself. !@#$%^&*
I recently found RIM. This being my first Blackberry (Storm) I have found great satisfaction with this smart phone. I look forward to the devices of tomorrow from RIM.