CEO denies report that BlackBerry exiting the handset market

WATERLOO, ON – Contrary to reports, BlackBerry has no plans to dump its handset business any time soon, executive chairman and CEO John Chen clarified on Thursday.In a blog post entitled Devices Business is an Important Part of Our End-to-End Strategy, Chen (pictured) said that he is focused “on finding a way to make this business profitable”, and that a Reuters article quoting him saying that he would consider exiting its handset business if it remains unprofitable took his comments out of context.“BlackBerry is not a handset-only company. We offer an end-to-end solution and devices are an important part of that equation”,...