Friday June 20, 2014 – 10am
Posted Jun 20, 2014 12:38:18 PM.
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10:00- Carmi Levy, Independent Tech Analyst
BlackBerry makes headway as quarterly results beat, company previews new phone. While it’s still too early to brand John Chen the turnaround king, the chief executive of BlackBerry showed Thursday that he’s making headway at the struggling smartphone maker. The company delivered a surprise to investors with a US$23-million profit for the first quarter of its 2015 financial year compared with a loss a year ago, though Chen said it doesn’t mean BlackBerry’s survival is entirely certain yet. Chen stood before shareholders for the first time since taking over the helm last year and assured them the company has plenty of ideas he believes will ensure its survival as he showed off BlackBerry’s first phablet. The BlackBerry Passport, which meets somewhere between a smartphone and a tablet in size, is scheduled to launch first in Europe this September, he said.
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10:30- Keith Leslie, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for the Canadian Press
After leading his party to a crushing defeat in last week’s provincial election, Tim Hudak says he’s giving up the helm of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party on July 2nd. The Canadian Press has learned Hudak will officially step down as P-C leader the day the legislature returns under a Liberal majority government. Hudak says this will give the caucus an opportunity to select an interim leader as the session begins. After he lost the election, Hudak said he would not lead the Conservatives into the next election, but would remain the M-P-P for Niagara West-Glanbrook.
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