Clearly BlackBerry isn’t out of the woods just yet as news appeared just before the weekend that some more BlackBerry employees were laid off:
BlackBerry Ltd. said Friday it is laying off an undisclosed number of employees in its device business including those focused on development of smartphone software and applications.
The move is part of the company’s goal of boosting sales of higher margin mobile-management and security software to reignite growth, it said.
Well, that’s unfortunate for those involved. But BlackBerry says it is still “committed” to putting out devices:
BlackBerry remains committed to the device business, having released since September a string of new smartphones aimed at professionals with more planned for this year. But the Waterloo, Ontario, company is increasingly betting on new mobile software aimed at fostering worker productivity and security for BlackBerrys, Apple iPhones, and devices powered by Google Inc.’s Android and other operating systems.
We’ll see if that is the case going forward.
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BlackBerry Lays Off Unknown Number Of Employees
Clearly BlackBerry isn’t out of the woods just yet as news appeared just before the weekend that some more BlackBerry employees were laid off:
BlackBerry Ltd. said Friday it is laying off an undisclosed number of employees in its device business including those focused on development of smartphone software and applications.
The move is part of the company’s goal of boosting sales of higher margin mobile-management and security software to reignite growth, it said.
Well, that’s unfortunate for those involved. But BlackBerry says it is still “committed” to putting out devices:
BlackBerry remains committed to the device business, having released since September a string of new smartphones aimed at professionals with more planned for this year. But the Waterloo, Ontario, company is increasingly betting on new mobile software aimed at fostering worker productivity and security for BlackBerrys, Apple iPhones, and devices powered by Google Inc.’s Android and other operating systems.
We’ll see if that is the case going forward.
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