
The move would be an about-face for the Ontario-based company, which had shunned Android in a bet that its BlackBerry 10 line of phones would be able to claw back market share.

The Canadian smartphone maker has, however, not specified how many employees would be affected.

The company said it has already won a contract in Britain to issue certificates for the smart meter initiative there with more than 104 million smart meters and home energy management devices.

Top executives at Canada's largest banks, insurers and pension funds sounded bullish over investing in India after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

India and Canada are expected to announce a uranium supply deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars where Canadian producer would provide fuel for Indian reactors, said the Globe and Mail report...

The phone boasts a larger screen, longer battery life, an expanded app library with access to offerings from Amazon.com Inc's Android App store, and a browser three times faster than the one on it...

BlackBerry CEO John Chen said last week that the company is likely to show new devices at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in 2015.

Excluding one-time items such as charges for restructuring and a change in the fair value of debentures, the company said the loss was 2 cents a share.

The smartphone comes to market as the phones of BlackBerry's rivals all converge on a tall, rectangular profile.

BlackBerry shrank its workforce by roughly 60 per cent over the last three years as it attempted to reinvent itself. The company that dominated the smartphone market in its infancy saw its sales e...





