Blackberry suffers billion loss - NU.nl

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In the third quarter of the year 2014 broken (until November) only 1.9 million BlackBerrys were shipped compared to 3.7 million units in the previous quarter and 6.9 million a year ago.

total of 4.3 million units were sold. The number of shipped smartphones is lower because there were many stocks. Moreover, it went to 3.2 million BlackBerry 7 devices, the old operating system manufacturer.

The company is now working with Foxconn, which also puts Apple iPhones together. Initially, Blackberry and Foxconn focus on making smartphones for Indonesia and other “high-growth” markets.

In a conference call with investors CEO John Chen said the first new Blackberry device appears. March or April 2014 It is a BlackBerry 10 device that will be.

to sell in six or seven emerging markets

Blackberry 10, the latest operating system, was introduced in January. The new devices have not been successful yet.

Blackberry Messenger

addition, the company focuses on reducing the cost and put it on Blackberry Messenger, the secure messaging company. Since October BBM is also available for Android and iOS. This has yielded forty million downloads.

on the use of the service is not known. Blackberry also does not want to make it clear how to Blackberry Messenger.

money

Billion Loss

manufacturer suffered in the third quarter net loss of $ 4.4 billion . This was mainly due to write-downs totaling $ 4.6 billion to include inventories and delivery obligations. Excluding one-off depreciation operating loss was $ 354 million.

Revenues came in the last three months amounted to 1.2 billion dollars. The turnover is still 40 percent hardware, 53 percent from services and 7 percent of software or other income.

years ago posted Blackberry 9 million dollar profit with sales of $ 5.8 billion.

Restless

Blackberry is in a troubled period. The company would be sold, but the board saw off anyway and CEO Thorsten Heins been fired and John Chen appointed as new director. The company then got an investment of dollars.

1 billion

Blackberry has $ 2.27 billion in cash.

Blackberry: deep valleys and high peaks