{"id":741319,"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.com\/index\/741319","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo CEO claims BlackBerry acquisition could \u2018possibly make sense\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/11\/lenovo-blackberry-acquisition-rumor-368217\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/bgr-img_00061.jpg?w=650&#038;h=580&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C580\" 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's mobile business. The executive explained that Lenovo had been in talks with the struggling phone maker and its bankers \"about various combinations or strategic ventures,\" and that Lenovo even had \"a team working on possible acquisitions.\u201d Ming'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's chief executive made sure to choose his words wisely. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/11\/lenovo-blackberry-acquisition-rumor-368217\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/c8uAtPdpKqA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","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":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36QL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}