Lazaridis talking in the BlackBerry World in 2011. (Photo courtesy BlackBerry)
Mike Lazaridis, co-founder and former Chief Executive of troubled BlackBerry mobile phone company, is considering an offer by his old company, according to a recent presentation by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The offer includes Douglas Fregin, who founded the company with Lazaridis in 1984 and retired in 2007 and is aligned with the previous reports that Lazaridis was interested private equity firms and reaching out for assistance.
The shares of the company based in Waterloo, Ontario (BBRY) were almost one percent, to $8.19, following the news.
The announcement comes three weeks after a $4.7 billion - is $9 per share - an offer by a consortium led by Fairfax financial. Also it comes just hours after Stephen Bates, head of software and services for companies of BlackBerry, took to the stage at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, customers still worth to convince Florida believe in the company.
Co-CEO along with Jim Balsillie, Lazaridis resigned from his post in January 2012. He left the company completely two months later. He and Fregin remain shareholders of the single largest company, each with eight percent of the company. (Balsillie sold its stake in December 2012). The property gives a pair of Foundation to launch an offer to private BlackBerry.
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Andrew Nusca is a contributor to CNET, ZDNet and SmartPlanet editor, ZDNet sister site on innovation. In 2013, its coverage will focus on business startups. It is based in New York.
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