RIM Falls as Survey Shows BlackBerry Loyalty Fading
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Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, fell the most in two months in U.S. trading as a Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd. survey found more companies opting for rival devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone.
Of 200 companies in the U.S. and U.K. surveyed, 74 percent now let their employees use devices other than BlackBerrys, Sanford Bernstein analyst Pierre Ferragu said in a report today. For the U.S. alone, the figure was 83 percent.