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Silver Lining
From: BlackBerry Town
$1.60
Howitt outlines the years following BlackBerry’s collapse, noting how many of the talented and educated tech workers BlackBerry was forced to lay off stayed in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, leading to more successful tech comapnies in the region.
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Chuck Howitt
CHUCK HOWITT was a reporter for the local daily newspaper, the Waterloo Region Record, until his recent retirement. He covered Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry, and other business stories for the newspaper. For this book he went back to his sources, and to more than 50 Kitchener-Waterloo residents whom he interviewed for their perspectives on the BlackBerry experience. This is his first book. He lives in Kitchener.