{"id":646230,"date":"2013-03-11T13:50:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=368217"},"modified":"2013-03-11T13:50:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:50:38","slug":"lenovo-ceo-claims-blackberry-acquisition-could-possibly-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646230","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo CEO claims BlackBerry acquisition could \u2018possibly make sense\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/11\/lenovo-blackberry-acquisition-rumor-368217\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/bgr-img_00061.jpg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lenovo BlackBerry Acquisition \" title=\"BlackBerry\" \/><\/a><\/center>Earlier this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/lenovo\">Lenovo<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=LNVGY&amp;ql=0\">LNVGY<\/a>) CFO Wong Wai Ming casually mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/24\/lenovo-rim-merger-305031\/\">a potential buyout of BlackBerry<\/a> as a way to boost the company&#8217;s mobile business. The executive explained that Lenovo had been in talks with the struggling phone maker and its bankers &#8220;about various combinations or strategic ventures,&#8221; and that Lenovo even had &#8220;a team working on possible acquisitions.\u201d Ming&#8217;s comments spread across the Web and within days the company was forced to clarify that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/28\/lenovo-rim-acquisition-rumor-309478\/\">Wong\u00a0was merely speaking broadly on the subject<\/a>. Even before the comments, however, analysts and Wall Street investors believed Lenovo could be a good suitor for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry\">BlackBerry<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>). This time around when speaking about a potential acquisition, Lenovo&#8217;s chief executive made sure to choose his words wisely. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/11\/lenovo-blackberry-acquisition-rumor-368217\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/c8uAtPdpKqA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Lenovo (LNVGY) CFO Wong Wai Ming casually mentioned a potential buyout of BlackBerry as a way to boost the company&#8217;s mobile business. The executive explained that Lenovo had been in talks with the struggling phone maker and its bankers &#8220;about various combinations or strategic ventures,&#8221; and that Lenovo even had &#8220;a team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}