Losing the Signal Audiobook Summary
In 2009 BlackBerry controlled half of the smartphone market. Today that number is 1 percent. What went so wrong?
Losing the Signal is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. This is not a conventional tale of modern business failure by fraud and greed. The rise and fall of BlackBerry reveals the dangerous speed at which innovators race along the information superhighway.
With unprecedented access to key players, senior executives, directors, and competitors, Losing the Signal unveils the remarkable rise of a company that started above a bagel shop in Ontario. At the heart of the story is an unlikely partnership between a visionary engineer, Mike Lazaridis, and an abrasive Harvard Business School grad, Jim Balsillie. Together they engineered a pioneering pocket email device that became the tool of choice for presidents and CEOs. The partnership enjoyed only a brief moment on top of the world, however. At the very moment BlackBerry was ranked the world’s fastest-growing company, internal feuds and chaotic growth crippled the company as it faced its gravest test: Apple and Google’s entry into mobile phones.
Expertly told by acclaimed journalists Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, this is an entertaining, whirlwind narrative that goes behind the scenes to reveal one of the most compelling business stories of the new century.
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Losing the Signal Audiobook Narrator
William Hughes is the narrator of Losing the Signal audiobook that was written by Jacquie McNish
William Hughes is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. A professor of political science at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon, he received his doctorate in American politics from the University of California at Davis. He has done voice-over work for radio and film and is also an accomplished jazz guitarist.
About the Author(s) of Losing the Signal
Jacquie McNish is the author of Losing the Signal
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Losing the Signal Full Details
Narrator | William Hughes |
Length | 11 hours 29 minutes |
Author | Jacquie McNish |
Category | |
Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
Release date | April 26, 2024 |
ISBN | 9781504619868 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Losing the Signal is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Business & Economics, Corporate & Business History
Additional info
The publisher of the Losing the Signal is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781504619868.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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