KQED Nightly Business Report September 24, 2013
23th. Good evening, im susie herera. Well, we begin tonight with big news in technology, the struggling pioneer, blackberry, may have just received the call it has been waiting for. The onetime tech giant getting a lifeline from a consortium based fairfax holdings, which would involve a deal worth about 4. 7 billion. Fairfax owns about 10 of the companys shares and after news of the deal halting trading for about an hour, shares of blackberry ended 1 higher on very heavy volume. Still shy of the nine dollars a share that fairfax agreed to pay. Not a done deal by any means, they have six weeks ...