Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the co-chief executives and co-chairmen of Research in Motion, the BlackBerry smartphone and tablet maker, announced yesterday that they would step aside to make way ...

COMMENTARY Research in Motion (RIMM) announced that its co-CEOs would step down. Replacing Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis is COO Thorsten Heins, who joined the company four years ago from Siemens.

Shaken BlackBerry firm RIM is readying a new chairman, sources suggest, as current co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie step down from their positions as co-chairs in an attempt to placate ...

Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, Research In Motion's long-standing co-chief executives and co-chairmen, have stepped down from both roles following extensive pressure over the the BlackBerry maker's ...