Losers, BlackBerry layoff 250 employees

OTTAWA - The slowdown in sales of products made ​​manufacturer of the BlackBerry smartphone division to fire 250 employees testing new products at the headquarters of Canada. This policy was to make the company's financial efficiency.

"BlackBerry informed 250 employees laid off," RIM spokeswoman Lisette Kwong at DigitalOne (26/7).

These employees are part of a division of the New Product Testing Facility, a manufacturing department that supports the BlackBerry.

BlackBerry which has been trying to create a culture of mobile users on smartphones besutannya, but a lot of consumers switching to Apple or other smartphone makers like Samsung, especially those using Google's Android operating system.

A recent survey shows BlackBerry share of the global smartphone market fell to 2.9 percent in the first quarter of 2013.

In an effort to restore its former glory, Research in Motion (RIM) as the manufacturer of BlackBerry launched a new platform on January and try to reinforce the brand BlackBerry.

Labeled the new smartphone BlackBerry 10 is considered as the best hope to regain corporate customers after suffering staggering losses in market share in recent years