As BlackBerry Fades, Canada Just Says No to Chinese Investors
Gillette, Felix [2013], “As BlackBerry Fades, Canada Just Says No to Chinese Investors”, Business Week, New York, 6 de noviembre, http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-11-06/as-blackberry-fades-cana...
As the list of potential investors who recently considered buying BlackBerry continues to grow, new details are emerging about why one of them -- the Beijing tech giant Lenovo -- never ended up submitting a formal bid. Turns out Chinese investors are not particularly welcome in Canada. In recent months, as the Globe & Mail reports, the Canadian government intervened and informed BlackBerry that it would not accept a takeover by any Chinese company due to national security concerns.