{"id":77277,"date":"2015-01-14T23:43:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T21:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=77277"},"modified":"2015-01-14T23:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T21:43:06","slug":"samsung-eyes-7-5-billion-blackberry-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/77277\/samsung-eyes-7-5-billion-blackberry-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung eyes $7.5 billion BlackBerry buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung recently approached BlackBerry with an offer to buy the struggling Canadian smartphone maker for as much as $7.5 billion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/01\/14\/us-blackberry-m-a-samsung-exclusive-idUSKBN0KN2FW20150114\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters is reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a source \u201cfamiliar with the matter\u201d and documents that it has seen, Reuters went on to report that Samsung wants to buy BlackBerry to gain access to its patent portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>The source reportedly said that Samsung initially proposed an offer that represented a premium of 38% to 60% over BlackBerry\u2019s current trading price, implying an enterprise value of $6 billion to $7.5 billion (US) for BlackBerry.<\/p>\n<p>News of Samsung\u2019s bid for BlackBerry comes after the two companies <a title=\"BlackBerry, Samsung join forces\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/114233-blackberry-samsung-join-forces.html\">announced a partnership<\/a> involving BlackBerry\u2019s mobile device management and security platform.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, a spokesperson for Samsung could not be immediately reached for comment, while BlackBerry declined to comment.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on BlackBerry and Samsung<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/116836-samsung-launches-r1000-tizen-smartphone.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Samsung launches R1,000 Tizen smartphone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/116680-samsung-galaxy-a7-sa-launch-details-emerge.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Samsung Galaxy A7 SA launch details emerge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/115951-blackberry-classic-launched.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BlackBerry Classic launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/113941-mobile-device-war-in-sa-apple-vs-android-vs-blackberry.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mobile device war in SA: Apple vs Android vs BlackBerry<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/114233-blackberry-samsung-join-forces.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BlackBerry, Samsung join forces<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung is willing to pay as much as $7.5 billion for BlackBerry, Reuters has reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[161,26,52],"class_list":["post-77277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-blackberry","tag-headline","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77281,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77277\/revisions\/77281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}