BlackBerry's Chen clarifies comment; handset business is not being sold "anytime soon"

On Wednesday, BlackBerry CEO John Chen told Reuters that if he could not make money selling handsets, he would exit the business. While that seems like a reasonable comment, and one that we passed along to you in a story on Wednesday night, apparently some read the statement as saying that the sale of the division was imminent. So many people took Chen's remarks to mean that BlackBerry was actually on the verge of exiting the phone business, that the executive felt compelled to respond to the story on the company blog.



Chen wrote that he is not about to sell off the handset business "anytime ...



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