BlackBerry warned on Friday it expects losses between 950 and 995 million dollars (about 700 to EUR 735 million) in quarterly results that will present next week and announced the dismissal of 4,500 employees, about a third of the workforce.
transaction of the shares was temporarily suspended on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq to the American announcement. Index in New York, the transaction has been taken up with the shares falling by over 20%, and had then recovered slightly.
In March, when it announced last number of employees across the world, the Canadian manufacturer had 12,700 workers.The company was almost pushed out of the market for smartphones by Apple and the manufacturers of mobile phones with Android. Data analyst IDC indicate that, in the second quarter, leading the Android system with 79.3% market share, followed by iOS with 13.2%. Windows Phone had 3.7% and BlackBerry 2.9%.
The manufacturer has said he was available to be purchased. On Friday, he recalled that liquidity has a 2600 million dollars and that is debt-free. This week, BlackBerry had the Z30, the model with the largest screen that the brand has manufactured and quarter to emerge with the latest operating system, which received good reviews by the experts, but did not attract consumers. Also on Friday, the company announced that the messaging service BlackBerry Messenger, once a most appreciated features of the phones of the brand, will be from the weekend, available for Apple devices and Android.
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