Losing The Signal (Paperback) by Jacquie McNish

9781443436199. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 288. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. "In 2009, BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is less than one percent. What went so wrong? [This] is a ... story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed. The rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway. With unprecedented access to key players ... [the book] unveils the ... rise of a company that started above a bagel store in Ontario, at the heart of [which is the story of] an unlikely partnership between a visionary engineer, Mike Lazaridis, and an abrasive Harvard Business school grad, Jim Balsillie"--