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By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 07 January 2012, 02:24 IST
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3. Jeffries, the investment security and banking firm, reported that RIM would mostly name Barbara Stymiest as the new Chairman of the Canadian firm. Stymiest, currently the Group Head of Strategy, Treasury and Corporate Services at the Royal Bank Canada, is regarded as one of the leading executives in the country, according to the International Business Times.

 

 

4. The announcement of Eastman Kodak girding itself for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing made news on January 4. The 131-year old pioneer in the field of imaging, under the leadership of Antonio Perez, is focusing on selling 1000-odd patents, and is also approaching banks for a debtor-in-process financing of $1 billion in an attempt to stay above the tide.