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| Lenovo’s CEO Yang Yuanqing |
The Chief Executive Officer of Lenovo told a French financial newspaper that his company may eventually consider buying smartphone maker Blackberry.
Lenovo’s Yang Yuanqing told Les Echos that a deal with Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry “could possibly make sense, but first I need to analyze the market and understand what exactly the importance of this company is.”
The Canadian smartphone maker lost its market share to Apple and Samsung and has not recovered from the slump that hit it last year, this has raised speculations of a takeover.
When asked in January about Lenovo Chief Financial Officer Wong Wai Ming’s comments, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said he didn’t know why the Lenovo Executive had made those remarks.
“As always with these topics, we will talk about things when they are ready to be talked about and ready to be announced,” Heins said in an interview at the time. “There are other constituents in the process that need to be involved — if there would be anything.”
