{"id":52561,"date":"2014-01-06T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=52561"},"modified":"2014-01-06T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T05:01:14","slug":"blackberry-hires-ron-louks","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/blackberry-hires-ron-louks","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Hires Former HTC and Sony Ericsson Executive to Run Device Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 33px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2.ubergizmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Blackberry-Logo-hires-640x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"125\" \/>BlackBerry has hired Ron Louks to run its devices business.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>Louks is a former executive of both HTC and Sony Ericsson, making him no stranger to smartphones, but his new role of creating demand for BlackBerry devices could prove his toughest task yet.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ron will focus on BlackBerry&rsquo;s long-term product road map, including hardware, software and design, as well as the company&rsquo;s joint development efforts,&rdquo; stated chairman and interim CEO John Chen.<\/p>\n<p>Chen has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/three-more-executives-leaving-blackberry-2013-12-16\" target=\"_blank\">been shaking up the executive team<\/a> since taking over the reigns from Thorsten Heins late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry has hired Ron Louks to run its devices business. Louks is a former executive of both HTC and Sony Ericsson, making him no stranger to smartphones, but his new role of creating demand for BlackBerry devices could prove his toughest task yet. &ldquo;Ron will focus on BlackBerry&rsquo;s long-term product road map, including hardware, software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":52563,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-52561","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/52561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/52561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/52563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52561"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=52561"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=52561"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=52561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}