BlackBerry Ltd. is betting on CEO John Chen for the long run. The two announced an agreement to extend Chen’s leadership of BlackBerry through November 2023, the company announced today. BlackBerry has “tremendous”
NEW YORK - BlackBerry has completed a dramatic shift from being one of the world’s most well known mobile device manufacturers, to becoming one of the top global software and security companies. Speaking
Published on: November 14th, 2017 Mandy Kovacs @MandyVKovacs
After putting a positive spin on missed expectations in its last quarter, BlackBerry Ltd. is once again framing its latest results as evidence of being back on track. On Thursday the Waterloo, Ont.-based
Published on: September 28th, 2017 Eric Emin Wood @ericewood
BlackBerry Ltd. made headlines last week after its latest quarterly revenues came in below analysts' expectations, but the company and CEO John Chen appear undeterred by the news. On the surface, BlackBerry's numbers
Published on: June 26th, 2017 Eric Emin Wood @ericewood
BlackBerry Ltd. has finally stanched the last of its financial wounds and might even be licensing its name to a new tablet soon, CEO John Chen told investors Friday. The company posted fourth-quarter
Published on: April 3rd, 2017 Eric Emin Wood @ericewood
One day after announcing a new facility to develop autonomous vehicles, BlackBerry Ltd. has revealed that less than 25 per cent of its revenue is now related to mobile devices. According to its
Published on: December 20th, 2016 Eric Emin Wood @ericewood
Despite BlackBerry Ltd. retreating from designing and making its own hardware, it's possible that BlackBerry-branded devices will be more effectively delivered to market than in recent years, according to Ralph Pini, chief operating
BlackBerry Ltd. will exit the hardware business internally and leave development of future smartphones to its partners, according to BlackBerry CEO John Chen in a press release issued Wednesday morning. Previously, Chen had
The difference between a BlackBerry-made Android smartphone and every other Android smartphone was just erased. Waterloo, Ont.-based BlackBerry Ltd. is allowing the suite of BlackBerry applications that have served as differentiators between its
Though his company announced a first-quarter loss of more than $600 million USD today, BlackBerry Ltd. CEO John Chen remains optimistic about its long-term viability thanks to the continued growth of its software
Published on: June 23rd, 2016 Eric Emin Wood @ericewood
BlackBerry Ltd. has given itself the remainder of its current fiscal year, which ends next March, to return its handset division to profitability, CEO John Chen said during the company's annual general meeting
Published on: June 22nd, 2016 Eric Emin Wood @ericewood
BlackBerry is defending itself in light of revelations that it had given the RCMP the global encryption key to its personal devices. In an official blog post attributed to company chief executive John Chen, the
It may have become a beloved fixture in the IT World Canada offices, but first-quarter sales were soft for BlackBerry's latest high-end device, the Android-powered Priv, with CEO John Chen saying in a
Published on: April 11th, 2016 Eric Emin Wood @ericewood
The big announcement at the BlackBerry Security Summit held in New York today focused on the sheer size and scope of the Internet of Things (IoT) and BlackBerry’s focus on winning in that
