BlackBerry cuts jobs globally

BLACKBERRY is cutting jobs at offices around the world as it brings together the different parts of its shrinking smartphone business. The cutbacks come as the Waterloo, Ontario-based company works to make its device unit profitable again, BlackBerry said on Friday in a statement. Lisette Kwong, a spokeswoman for the company, declined to say how many employees were affected. The company had 7 000 employees as of September 2014. – Bloomberg