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RIM Jumps After CEO Says Hardware Sale Possible: Toronto Mover
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Research In Motion Ltd. jumped to to its highest since late 2011 after its chief executive officer said the BlackBerry maker is considering strategic options including a sale of its hardware production unit.
Possibilities include “the sale of hardware production as well as licensing of our software,” CEO Thorsten Heins was reported as saying in an interview with German newspaper Die Welt. Nick Manning, a spokesman for the Waterloo, Ontario-based company, said those options are examples that Heins cited among the possibilities under consideration in a strategic review.