 "BlackBerry executives resign as RIM posts $125 million Q4 loss")
Toronto: BlackBerry makers Research In Motion said several senior executives resigned as the BlackBerry maker posted a massive quarterly loss, stung by slipping smartphone shipments and limited deliveries of its poor-selling PlayBook tablet.
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RIM’s shares dropped as much as 9 per cent on Thursday after the company said it would no longer issue financial forecasts and was reviewing “strategic opportunities” such as partnerships and joint-venture licensing, and other ways to leverage its assets. A handful of senior executives, including former co-CEO and current director Jim Balsillie, will depart.
The company reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss of $125 million, or 24 cents a share, as it booked writedowns on its BlackBerry 7 phones and goodwill.
On an adjusted basis, net income dropped to $418 million, or 80 cents a share, on revenue of $4.19 billion in new CEO Thorsten Heins’ first quarter as chief executive. A year ago it earned $934 million, or $1.78, on revenue of $5.56 billion.
Analysts, on average, had expected RIM to earn 81 cents a share on revenue of $4.54 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The company shipped 11.1 million BlackBerrys and more than 500,000 PlayBooks in the three months to 3 March.
The decline in BlackBerry shipments suggests that RIM, at best, is treading water until it releases its next-generation of BlackBerry smartphones. Most analysts consider that a do-or-die launch for the company as it falls further behind Apple Inc’s iPhone and iPad and devices powered by Google’s Android.
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