Hmmm, it seems the news that i-mate had shuffled off this mortal coil may have been a bit premature. You may remember that I did a blog post about it last week, y’know, since it was being reported that i-mate had shut up shop, and laid off its entire workforce in the Dubai office.
Well, like I say, it now turns out that viewpoint may have been a bit premature, according to ArabianBusiness. The company, it seems, aren’t as dead as reports suggested.
The plot thickens.
It also turns out that what’s actually going down is a twisty-turny tale. It sounds like it’d be a page-turner, and it’s got fraud in it, and the police, and everything. Now we just need some religious symbolism, and Dan Brown could write another version of Angels & Demons about it (since there are already two versions of the same story, although one’s cunningly labelled The Da Vinci Code, to get readers to buy it).
CEO Jim Morrison (ah, damn, why didn’t I quote The Doors’ song The End in the last story, when I had the chance?) has gone on record as saying that the company’s financial woes have been caused by some kind of major fraud committed by a senior employee in the company. That led to there being no cash at all, which in turn led to being unable to pay people’s wages, which finally led to the office being shuttered, and a boatload of people suddenly finding they didn’t actually have a job to go to, any more.
Morrison has gone on record to say: “We are keeping the brand, we are putting out products, and we will be looking for more funding of course. There is a lot of good stuff happening.”
Here’s hoping they get past the one glaringly massive of bad stuff that’s happening, so they can actually have the chance to show us some of the good stuff that’s happening…
And yes, for the record, I’m still gagging to get my hands on an i-mate Centurion. So, don’t let me down, Jim Morrison. I really want to get hold of that phone…
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