{"id":77285,"date":"2015-01-15T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T06:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=77285"},"modified":"2015-01-15T08:23:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T06:23:29","slug":"blackberry-responds-to-samsung-buyout-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/77285\/blackberry-responds-to-samsung-buyout-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry responds to Samsung buyout talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackberry has refuted claims in a Reuters report which said that Samsung was looking at a potential $7.5 billion buyout of the smartphone maker.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued, BlackBerry said it has not engaged with Samsung in any deal, but refused to comment further:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BlackBerry is aware of certain press reports published today with respect to a possible offer by Samsung to purchase BlackBerry.<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry has not engaged in discussions with Samsung with respect to any possible offer to purchase BlackBerry.<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry\u2019s policy is not to comment on rumors or speculation, and accordingly it does not intend to comment further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Samsung wants to buy BlackBerry to gain access to its patent portfolio, citing a source \u201cfamiliar with the matter\u201d and documents that it has seen.<\/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<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on BlackBerry<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Samsung eyes $7.5 billion BlackBerry buy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/77277\/samsung-eyes-7-5-billion-blackberry-buy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung eyes $7.5 billion BlackBerry buy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to BlackBerry security platform ropes in Samsung\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/73430\/blackberry-security-platform-ropes-in-samsung\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">BlackBerry security platform ropes in Samsung<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to BlackBerry puts focus on profitablity\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/72912\/blackberry-puts-focus-on-profitablity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">BlackBerry puts focus on profitablity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry has responded to a Reuters report claiming that mobile and electronics giant Samsung was eying a $7.5 billion buyout of the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[161,26,52],"class_list":["post-77285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-blackberry","tag-headline","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77285","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=77285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77289,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77285\/revisions\/77289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}