Julio César Rivas.
Toronto (Canada), 27 set (EFE). – The poor results of the sales of new BlackBerry phones have made the Canadian company lost U.S. $ 965 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2014, announced on Friday the company.
loss of nearly $ 1 billion is the worst quarterly results of the company is considered the inventor of smartphones that now dominate the market.
But if the BlackBerry, formerly known as Research In Motion (RIM) launched the fashion of smart phones, the Canadian company lost the race to attract users to the Apple iPhone and devices with the Android operating system Google.
BlackBerry said Monday that nearly 100% of its quarterly losses, U.S. $ 934 million, was due to the fact that millions of phone units with the new BB10 operating system were on shelves around the world or have been sold at prices discount to reduce inventories.
In the quarter that ended on August 31, the company sold 3.7 million phones. In comparison, Samsung sold in the month 10 million units of its latest model of the Galaxy family and Apple reached 9 million iPhone 5 in the first weekend of sales.
“We are very unhappy with the operating and financial results this quarter and announced a series of major changes to respond to competitive hardware environment and our cost structure,” he said in a statement the president of BlackBerry, Thorsten Heins.
However, Heins said that despite the setback of the quarterly results, the company “is financially strong” for being in possession of $ 2.6 billion in cash and no debt.
BlackBerry wants to preserve the most effective to have in the box and, last week, has already announced that it would lay off 4,500 employees, more than a third of its workforce, to reduce by 50% its operating expenses.
The company also said its majority shareholder, the investment fund Fairfax Financial Holdings, plans to buy the company for $ 4.7 billion to provide $ 9 for each share they do not. EFE
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