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07-10-2013, 09:24 AM
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins talked a good game at Tuesday’s shareholder meeting and BlackBerry shares climbed 3% after hours as a result. The struggling smartphone maker is still in survival mode as is.desperately.tries to compete in a market that continues to slip from its grasp, however, and yet another round of layoffs is coming. The Wall Street Journal reports that BlackBerry fired its VP of U.S. sales.Richard Piasentin last month, and it says more layoffs are coming “across middle management in the sales and support divisions.” This new round of layoffs will be in addition to the 5,000 BlackBerry workers let go in the previous fiscal year.
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