A little over a year since stepping down as co-CEO of Research in Motion, Mike Lazaridis announced following the company’s first quarter earnings report that he plans to leave his position as ...

Jim Balsillie, tall and lean, managed the finances. Mike Lazaridis, shorter and stocky, was the geek--having spent a childhood summer reading every science book available at his local library ...

A voracious reader from an early age, Lazaridis won a prize at the Windsor Public Library at age 12 for reading every single science book in the library, Johnston says. "It's clear that Mike was a ...

Research In Motion’s joint chairmen and chief executives, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, have resigned as part of a long-awaited shake-up at the embattled Canadian maker of the BlackBerry ...

Mike Lazaridis is a Canadian businessman widely recognized as the co-founder of BlackBerry, which manufactured the BlackBerry wireless handheld devices. In 1999, he received an Academy Award for ...

During its quarterly earnings call this morning, the newly-christened BlackBerry announced that Mike Lazaridis will retire as vice chairman and director of the Canadian company on May 1.

Mike Lazaridis will admit that Waterloo, Ontario, is not often confused with Silicon Valley. It has no ocean beaches nearby. It has fewer Teslas and private jets. It gets substantial amounts of ...

Or the beginning of the end. Last April, Mike Lazaridis sat in a BBC studio, holding his company’s future in his hands: a svelte seven-inch tablet, black, with the word “BlackBerry ...

Jay Baruchel as Mike Lazaridis and Matt Johnson as Doug Fregin in "Blackberry." Credit: IFC Films In 1996, Doug (Johnson) and Mike (Jay Baruchel in a glistening silver wig) tumbled into a meeting ...