BlackBerry boss John Chen: security focus heralds return 'from edge of death'
by Emily Price in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#TCB2)
Once a smartphone leader, BlackBerry's failure to recognize the rise of mobile browsing nearly sunk the firm. Superior security could be key to its survival
The CEO of troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry has blamed the company's declining fortunes on a failure to deal with the "speed of change" in the industry, but claimed the company had pulled itself back "from the edge of death".
John Chen, who took over as BlackBerry CEO in November 2013, admitted that it had once seen itself at the top of the smartphone race, but now finds itself now at the bottom.
