Leak reveals actionable notifications, Wi-Fi direct support in BlackBerry 10.2
BlackBerry 10.2 is expected to arrive later this year with support for a variety of new features. The company previously confirmed that the update will …
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BlackBerry is losing the mobile war with Microsoft
This has been a very rough week for BlackBerry. Shares plummeted more than 25% from the mid-$14 range last Friday as BlackBerry reported abysmal earnings, …
BlackBerry 10 sales seen improving in the second half
There’s just no way to sugarcoat it: BlackBerry’s May quarter was a disaster. The company posted a surprise loss and shed 4 million subscribers despite …
BlackBerry users are now worth $40 each, down from $866 in 2010
As analysts continue to pick through BlackBerry’s recent earnings report for signs of life, all they seem to come up with are more causes for …
As BlackBerry fights for its life, BB10 called ‘irrelevant’
Things are not looking very good for BlackBerry right now. After the Street built up investor confidence over the past few months, BlackBerry posted a …
BlackBerry, Windows Phone threatened by flood of cheap Android devices
For a while now, we’ve heard about BlackBerry and Windows Phone vendors betting big on expanding their presence in emerging markets by releasing cheaper devices …
BlackBerry whacked with downgrades after dismal earnings
You get the feeling that it’s going to be a rough week for BlackBerry. Barron’s points out the company get hit with three separate downgrades …
Surveying the saviors: A look at BlackBerry 10 and Lumia sales so far
BlackBerry posted dismal fiscal first-quarter results on Friday that sent its stock plummeting more than 25%. The May quarter marked the first full quarter of …
Former Apple CEO Sculley tells BlackBerry to ditch hardware
Tech companies probably aren’t clamoring for the advice of former Apple CEO John Sculley, but that isn’t stopping him from freely dishing it out. In …
BlackBerry: ‘Nowhere to go but down’
When a company is fighting for its life, the last thing it wants to hear from market watchers is that it’s doomed. A new report …
BlackBerry’s U.S. smartphone share sinks to Symbian levels
As we’ve observed before, if BlackBerry is going to mount a comeback it will likely have to do so without a significant presence in the …
BlackBerry’s risky pricing strategy has backfired
So BlackBerry missed the BlackBerry 10 volume expectation by about 800,000 units over the last quarter. It shipped 2.7 million and the consensus was probably …
BlackBerry’s Black Friday: Company sheds billions in market value as comeback hopes fade
All of the optimistic signs we’ve seen from BlackBerry over the past few months all but went up in smoke on Friday after it issued …
BlackBerry, Windows Phone see their market share shrink yet again
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Android and iOS continued to expand their market shares in the United States at the expense of …
BlackBerry lost 4 million subscribers in Q1 despite new launches
BlackBerry posted dismal fiscal first-quarter results on Friday morning, and the hits kept on coming during the vendor’s earnings call. CEO Thorsten Heins did his …
BlackBerry CEO says the PlayBook will never get BlackBerry 10
The dozens of loyal BlackBerry PlayBook owners out there were dealt a major blow on Friday when BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said that he’d stopped …
Not revealing BlackBerry 10 unit sales was a big mistake
BlackBerry’s May-quarter handset shipments of 6.8 million units was probably at least 400,000 units short of what the company needed for the quarter. That is …
BlackBerry back in the red after posting surprise Q1 loss
Just as BlackBerry surprised investors last quarter by posting a profit, so too has it surprised this quarter by posting a loss. The company on …
Microsoft: We’re not afraid of BlackBerry, proud to be No. 3 in mobile
A fierce battle is raging among smartphone industry contenders this year, but Microsoft thinks the war has already been won. In an interview with Verge, …
BlackBerry’s comeback momentum hinges on the Q5
The handset industry is waiting for BlackBerry’s May quarter report, set to be released on Friday. But it’s the August quarter guidance that may turn …
BlackBerry is back from the dead
BlackBerry has been a source of contention in recent months, as the company struggles back to regain some of its former luster in the ever-changing …
Instagram for BlackBerry, Windows Phone not coming ‘anytime soon’
Big name companies such as Path, Facebook, Tumbler and Twitter were quick to develop applications for Google’s wearable computing device. Popular photo-sharing service Instagram, however, …
Apple and BlackBerry continue to play cruel tricks on hedge funds
One of the most popular trading ideas among tech funds is to short BlackBerry — more than 30% of its stock was sold short recently. …
BlackBerry launches Secure Work Space for Android and iOS
BlackBerry on Tuesday launched a new service that will surely appeal to the bring your own device (BYOD) crowd. Secure Work Space will allow companies …
BlackBerry continues to baffle Wall Street as estimates swing wildly
Wall Street’s views on BlackBerry 10 sales have been all over the map in recent months. As we approach the company’s earnings announcement for the May quarter …
BlackBerry 10 still going strong, expected to ship 14 million devices this year
BlackBerry 10 devices may not be selling like iPhones or Samsung Galaxy phones, but BlackBerry nonetheless has to be pleased that it’s beaten many analysts’ …
BlackBerry 10 sales said to be slow in the U.S., strong elsewhere
It seems like we hear more reports about BlackBerry’s revival every week, although those of us who live in the United States may not see …
BlackBerry reportedly still plans to launch 3-4 more BlackBerry 10 phones in 2013
BlackBerry’s comeback efforts are now fully underway, but the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 are just the beginning. According to a new report from Digitimes, …
U.K. government accused of spying on G20 delegates’ BlackBerry phones
Spying claims are spreading and escalating across the globe, from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom. The latest big Guardian exposé claims that the U.K. …
BlackBerry 10.2 to bring support for Android Jelly Bean apps
BlackBerry boasts that its operating system has the ability to run Android apps, although the current version of BlackBerry 10 only works with apps from Android 2.3 Gingerbread …
