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The bad news comes back from the BlackBerry. The Canadian company announced that they re-recorded a loss.
In the second quarter financial statements ended on August 31, 2013, the BlackBerry reported a net loss of 965 million U.S. dollars, or around Rp 10 trillion.
In the second quarter of this year, BlackBerry revenues of 1.6 billion U.S. dollars, down 49 percent from the same quarter last year.
BlackBerry reveals that the number of managed devices they are selling during the quarter. The numbers are so alarming, that just sebanya only 3.7 million devices.
More disappointing again, most of the devices sold are still running the BlackBerry 7 operating system. Unfortunately, not mentioned in detail the results of the sales of this device.
Quoted from Business Insider, Saturday (09/28/2013), BlackBerry products BlackBerry Z10 much blame for losses obtained. Commercial devices based on BlackBerry 10 is not got a positive response from the market.
Products are expected to bring the BlackBerry back to its former glory, even make them worse off. BlackBerry reveals, decrease the book value of Z10 is not successfully sold reached 934 million U.S. dollars.
"We are very disappointed with the financial and operating results for the quarter and there is a lot of performance degradation due to increasing competition in the market," says BlackBerry CEO, Thorsten Heins.
The financial statements are in line with predictions BlackBerry few days ago. At that time, they would expect a loss as much as 995 million U.S. dollars.
BlackBerry also move quickly to overcome the poor financial statements. BlackBerry plans to lay off 4,500 employees or 40 percent of its workforce around the world
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