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Overseas users like BlackBerry Messenger, new phones appeal to youth in Europe, Asia, Africa Therersquo little doubt Research in Motion faces problems, especially as its share of the global smartphone market shrinks and doubts emerge from some traditional enterprise users of BlackBerry who felt burned by a recent network outage. But the picture for RIM isnrsquo;t all dreary, especially outside of North America where RIMrsquo BlackBerry Messenger instant messenger service is popular and where the company is drawing in young users to a wide range of new BlackBerry smartphones.One U.K.-based analyst blamed bad press for at least part of the companyrsquo U.S. problems. RIM continues to face unfavorable press in the stanley cup U.S., said Canalys analyst Tim Shepherd. Ramon Llamas, an analyst at IDC, said the perceptions of bad press toward RIM stem mainly from stories about U.S. and Canadian concerns about the dual CEO structure. I donrsquo;t really see a lot of bad press about RIM, Llamas said. What I do see more commonly are companies saying, lsquo;Wersquo;ve had BlackBerry for a while and wersquo;re ready to move o stanley kaffeebecher nto something new.rsquo; The BlackBerry outage was the final straw for some of them.Llamas added that RIMrsquo North American problems can also be traced to stronger competition from Applersquo iPhone and Android-based smartphones than in stanley botella other parts of the world. Also, he said, RIM has saturated all of the North A Yxsk BP oil spill trial continues with question of how much oil was lost
Monday 21 October 2013 8:39 pmHeathrow hits out at regulator as profits soarBy: Express KCSShareFacebookShare on FacebookXShare on TwitterLinkedInShare on LinkedInWhatsAppShare on WhatsAppEmailShare on EmailHEATHROW warned yesterday that its investors are not prepared to put in a penny more to improve the airport unless the regulator allows them to generate a better rate of return. The airport, which yesterday posted a 22 per cent rise in profits, is furious at the Civil Aviation Authorityrsquo move to cap any rises in passenger yield in line with inflation for five years from April 2014. We made no secret of the fact that these restrictions are the toughest that Heathrow has ever faced, chief financial officer Jose Leo told City A.M. Heathrow invested pound;11bn over the last 10 years. Our investors are keen to continue investing providing the rate of return is attractive. At this level of return they donrsquo;t see any point in investing a penny more than you need to keep the airport running safely.Heathrowrsquo bi stanley thermobecher ggest investors include Spainrsquo Ferrovial, the Qatar Investment Authority and the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund. The airportrsquo management will do our best to persuade the CAA to modify its pr stanley germany oposal, Leo said. The watchdog has already raised the cap from inflation minus 1.3 per cent, which it put forward in April. Leorsquo comments came as the airport reported a 10.7 per cent stanley us rise in
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