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Blackberry spokesman confirms the change compared to the New York Times .
Yet it is not clear how long Chen will remain. at the head of the Canadian smartphone maker Initially, the CEO, the company would only strong reform, a property that Chen successfully applied to other ailing companies in the past.
“Following the publication of the quarterly figures, and again in interviews with the media during CES Chen CEO Blacberry indicated to remain until the company back financially stable,” said the spokesman of Blackberry. “The search for a new CEO is still on the back burner.”
Chen argued since his appointment some fairly rigorous changes in the company. Thus, several directors were fired and the number of employees will be reduced.
in the coming years by forty percentthe previous CEO of Blackberry, Thorsten Heins, had to leave the company after disappointing results in November of last year. Blackberry has struggled to compete in the smartphone market, and has seen its number of aircraft sold since 2011 more than half.
In the third quarter of fiscal year 2014 Blackberry turned off 4.4 billion net loss, the number of units sold was in that period by 1.9 million units less than a third of the 6.9 million sold in the same period a year earlier.
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