Ready to get BlackBerry for sale

Business: The Board of Directors of BlackBerry announced have formed a Committee to explore "strategic alternatives" such as joint ventures, partnerships or even the sale of the company.

The Board of Directors of BlackBerry announced Monday that it has formed an Ad Hoc Committee that could lead to the sale of the business. The news was aired just after the stock is suspended on the Nasdaq in New York.

According to the release of the company, the Committee will have the task "to explore strategic alternatives to increase the value and scalability to accelerate the deployment of 10 BlackBerry". "These alternatives may include, among other things, the possible ventures, strategic partnerships or alliances, a sale of the company or other transactions possible."

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P - DG Thorsten Heins said that the company will continue to focus on "the reduction of costs, looking for efficiency and acceleration of BES 10 [its platform management of e-mails] as well as to work to adopt smartphones BlackBerry 10".

Last week, Reuters reported that the Canadian firm would reflect to an output of the stock exchange. Its market capitalization fell to $ 4.8 billion, while it peaked at 84 billion in 2008.