RIM Earnings Disaster: Balsillie Quits, High-Level Execs Laid Off

Thursday, March 29, 2012 RIM Co-Founder Says Goodbye As Company's Earnings Tank Research In Motion co-founder and ex-CEO Jim Balsillie has resigned from the company's board of directors, the company announced Thursday as it missed expectations by a wide margin on its fourth-quarter results, and high-level execs were reportedly given pink slips. Goodbye, Canadian Penny Old Age Security Eligibility Raised To 67 Canada's Gas Prices Rising Faster Than Elsewhere -- Guess Why Rogers Lays Off 300 Despite Strong Earnings WATCH: Google's Self Driving Car Takes A Blind Man To Taco Bell BLOG POSTS Jonathan Naymark: What RIM's Failing Says About Canada Is it Canada itself which prevented the Blackberry from playing in the big-boy sandbox? No world domination please, we're Canadian. The Blackberry is like the technological version of Lester Pearson's peacekeepers, a fine and dandy tool during times of peace, but useless throughout a period of prolonged technological upheaval. Leah Busque: Why Independent Employment Is Killing the Nine to Five Job The term "nine-to-five" has long symbolized a kind of drudgery that sucks up our lives and eclipses our identities, but it wasn't until the Great Recession that the pejorative phrase was crowned with an entirely new distinction: old-fashioned. Gene Marks: 9 Rules For Doing Business With A Jew Like Me I bet there are a bunch of things you didn't know about doing business with a Jew. And yet you probably have a lot of Jewish customers and vendors. Consider this to be my Passover gift to you. Let me share just a few simple rules that might help you profit with my people in the coming year. Sean X: Top 11 Responses to 'Can We Have Your Facebook Password?' in an Interview It is such a fundamental breach of privacy that I almost become apoplectic when I think about it. As seductive as the potential job may be, do not be seduced. Here are 11 responses you can use. LearnVest: Body Oil, Babysitters And Boob Jobs: The Craziest Tax Deductions Bet you didn't know that you can deduct body oil from your taxes. Well, that's only if you're a bodybuilder -- it's a legitimate work expense!

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