Blackberry suffers billion loss - NOS

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The new BlackBerry handsets, like the Z10, selling barely AFP

phone maker Blackberry during the quarter $ 4.4 billion loss. That’s four times as much as a quarter. Sales of the Canadian company fell by 56 percent.

BlackBerry blames the huge loss of one-time write-off on their own stocks. The new models Z10 and Q10 sales barely. The company sold in the last quarter but 1.9 million smartphones, mostly outdated models.

It’s been bad times with Blackberry. Initially it was a pioneer in the field of Internet on mobile phones. But the company has outrun a few years ago by Apple and Samsung. In September, the company laid off 4,500 employees and more recent months, an acquisition fell through.

To turn the tide CEO Chen announced today that BlackBerry is working with Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics company that manufactures phones for all major brands. Foxconn will also help with the design of the aircraft and will manage the stocks go, leaving a large depreciation should no longer occur.

Investors seem to respond to the new policy. Positive BlackBerry share is more than an hour after trading on Wall Street than 7.5 percent.