BlackBerry
Rumoured Buyer: Lenovo, Samsung, Microsoft, go private
Rumoured To Be Acquired: BlackBerry
Approximate Date: March 2013 to present
As BlackBerry continues to struggle in a market dominated by mobile phone giants, rumours persist over who will purchase the company, if it will go private or simply disappear from the market altogether. Over the past few months, multiple companies have been rumoured to be looking into the Canadian smartphone company, most recently after Microsoft's purchase of Nokia in early September, but so far there have been no takers. BlackBerry stock jumped 5.29 percent on the same day Microsoft bought Nokia but overall continue to remain stagnant and low.