TORONTO: Fairfax Financial chief executive Prem Watsa said he is confident the consortium he leads can find the money to fund its $4.7 billion bid for smartphone maker BlackBerry. “We wouldn’t put our name
TORONTO/NEW YORK: Shares of BlackBerry fell more than 6% on Wednesday on doubts about a $4.7 billion bid to take the smartphone maker private, and after a big US carrier said it
MUMBAI: Prem Watsa, the founder of Fairfax Financial Holdings, is one of the first-generation expatriate-entrepreneurs in Canada who has built successful businesses but remains below the radar. Alongside his Canadian success stories, the India-born
TORONTO: As soon as Prem Watsa stepped down from Blackberry’s board in August, speculation that he would launch a bid for the troubled smartphone maker started to swirl. Six weeks later, the man some
Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB), a world leader in the mobile communications market, announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has formed a Special Committee to explore strategic alternatives to enhance value and increase scale