BlackBerry has surprised Wall Street by posting profit for the first quarter.

Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry has won an early round in its legal battle against an iPhone keyboard made by a star-tup co-founded by American Idol host Ryan Seacrest.

Smartphone maker BlackBerry has abandoned its bid to sell itself and is replacing its chief executive.

BlackBerry Ltd, coping with the collapse of a $4.7bn buyout by Fairfax Financial Holdings, will raise $1bn in convertible bonds and seek a new chief executive officer for the struggling company.

Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has abandoned plans to sell the business and ditched chief executive Thorsten Heins after nearly two years at the helm.