Investors punished BlackBerry yesterday, driving its shares down by about 20 per cent even before the US stock market opened after the company posted a surprise quarterly loss.

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The Business Matrix: Saturday 29 June 2013

Air Traffic head pockets £720,000

Blackberry shares tumble 20% after surprise quarterly loss

Canadian company blamed part of losses on Venezuelan currency restrictions

T-Mobile tweeted the announcement with this picture

UPDATE: BBM coming to Android and iOS, but who knows when

BlackBerry says T-mobile leak was incorrect, and that the release date is not yet known

Dogan Ismail died from a single stab wound

Dogan Ismail stabbing: Boy guilty of murdering teenager

A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering another teenager by stabbing him to death after he went to a housing estate to try to retrieve a stolen mobile phone.

BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins holds up the new BlackBerry 10 at a conference in Florida on Tuesday

Blackberry confirms plan to offer BBM app on rival platforms Android and Apple's iOS operating system

BBM to be available as a free download in the Apple App Store and Google Play store

BlackBerry makes loss of $1.22bn

BlackBerry offered some hope to investors as it swung back into the black in the last quarter, but the smartphone maker still crashed to an annual loss of $1.22bn (£800m).

Thorsten Heins, CEO of Blackberry-maker Research In Motion, says Apple's iPhone is outdated

Blackberry boss Thorsten Heins takes bite out of 'outdated' Apple iPhone

Lack of innovation has left iPhone user interface outdated, he says

The new BlackBerryZ10 handset and operating system should win back business users.

BlackBerry 10: A show-stopping debut for a new operating system and handset

BlackBerry has a key advantage. It makes both hardware and software – only Apple matches this – so it can ensure that everything works together perfectly.

The new BlackBerry operating system takes some getting used to - even for old BlackBerry users.

A Week With: BlackBerry Z10

The new BlackBerry phone launches with a totally new look and feel, but is it worth the wait?

Sales of new BlackBerry in UK better than expected, says chief

The chief executive of BlackBerry has boasted that sales of its new device, launched last week, have boomed in the UK.

The new BlackBerry 10

Solid sales in UK for new BlackBerry Z10 handset

The new BlackBerry Z10 handset which was released in the UK last week is proving popular..

BlackBerry 'is picking up in UK' after new device launch

The chief executive of the BlackBerry today boasted that sales of its new device, launched last week to much fanfare, have boomed in the UK.

The new BlackBerry operating system looks more like Apple’s iOS than ever before

Not according to type: it's out with the keyboard and in with a touchscreen as BlackBerry goes for an iPhone look with its Z10

There was a time when the world loved BlackBerry. Kids adored its messenger service, corporate titans favoured its Qwerty keypad (so much easier to tap out those mission-critical  emails on the move), while everyone from Cristiano Ronaldo to P Diddy, Lady Gaga and even Barack Obama were rarely seen in public without one. 

The new BlackBerry 10

BlackBerry 10 smartphone launched

BlackBerry reveals its new operating system to the world today

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