BlackBerry CEO John Chen caught up with Amber Kanwar for a little bit of a Q&A session surrounding the results and to discuss what's coming up in 2019 for BlackBerry.
"We delivered another solid quarter of performance, resulting in year-over-year double-digit percentage growth for total software and services revenue, earnings per share, and free cash flow" said John Chen, Executive Chairman and CEO, BlackBerry.
Continuing their push Healthcare, and following initiatives announced last month BlackBerry has now announced they have become a HIMSS Analytics Certified Consultant.
Sarment Holdings today announced they will be working with BlackBerry and to co-develop a highly-encrypted messaging application called KEYYES CHAT, using the BlackBerry Spark Communications Services SDK.
Following earlier rumors of the plans, BlackBerry has now announced they have entered into an agreement to acquire Cylance for US $1.4 billion in cash plus unvested employee incentive awards.
According to Business Insider, BlackBerry is currently in talks to acquire the Irvine, California based cybersecurity startup Cylance.
Back in February of last year, BlackBerry filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Nokia. Now, the two have dropped the suit.
Coming off of announcing BlackBerry's fiscal year 2019 Q2 results, BlackBerry CEO John Chen spoke with Bloomberg about where the company stands today and where they're headed in the near future.
"In the quarter, we exceeded our financial expectations driven by sequential growth in both our BlackBerry Technology Solutions and Enterprise Software and Services businesses"
It's about that time again, where BlackBerry lets us and investors know what's going on financially with the company and for their Fiscal Year 2019 Q2 results announcement, BlackBerry has set the date of September 28 at 8AM ET.