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 ...

REUTERS - BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO) (BBRY.O) co-founder Mike Lazaridis cut his stake in the company to 4.99 percent from 8 percent, and said that a group, which included Lazaridis, walked away from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 263-foot Artefact is owned and was essentially designed by BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis, a Canadian business tycoon and philanthropist. Its top speed is more than 17 knots with a cruising ...