BlackBerry Security May Be Key to an ‘Agnostic’ Future
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Buried in the avalanche of bad news in BlackBerry Ltd.’s latest quarterly results was a 32 percent increase in companies installing its servers. The gain may hold the key to the company’s survival, whether or not a tentative $4.7 billion offer to take the smartphone maker private works.
Customers had installed or were testing more than 25,000 of its enterprise servers used to manage secure networks for corporate smartphones -- BlackBerry, iPhone or Android -- at the end of August. That’s up from 19,000 in July. The increase was a bright spot amid the 45 percent plunge in sales and $965 million second-quarter loss the company reported last week.