{"id":652077,"date":"2013-04-12T09:10:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=433331"},"modified":"2013-04-12T09:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:10:57","slug":"blackberry-will-ask-regulators-to-investigate-analyst-who-made-false-return-rate-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652077","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry will ask regulators to investigate analyst who made false return rate claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/blackberry-z10-false-claims-investigation-433331\/\"><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=\"BlackBerry Z10 False Claims\" title=\"BlackBerry\" \/><\/a><\/center>BlackBerry (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>) is very unhappy with\u00a0Detwiler Fenton analyst Jeff Johnston. The company is accusing Johnston of making false claims about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry-z10\">BlackBerry Z10<\/a>\u00a0return rates in the U.S. and it plans to ask regulators in both the United States and Canada to launch a formal investigation into the matter. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/11\/blackberry-z10-us-launch-431418\/\">Johnston on Thursday claimed<\/a> that &#8220;key retail partners have seen a significant increase in Z10 returns to the point where, in several cases, returns are now exceeding sales, a phenomenon we have never seen before.&#8221; BlackBerry Chief Legal Officer Steve Zipperstein says that these claims are &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/01\/blackberry-z10-sales-iphone-android-354052\/\">materially false<\/a> and misleading&#8221; and says that they were &#8220;deliberately purveyed for the purpose of influencing the markets.&#8221; BlackBerry&#8217;s full press release is posted below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/blackberry-z10-false-claims-investigation-433331\/?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\/6aDAuDCX8KQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry (BBRY) is very unhappy with\u00a0Detwiler Fenton analyst Jeff Johnston. The company is accusing Johnston of making false claims about\u00a0BlackBerry Z10\u00a0return rates in the U.S. and it plans to ask regulators in both the United States and Canada to launch a formal investigation into the matter. Johnston on Thursday claimed that &#8220;key retail partners have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652077","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\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}