We talk to CEO John Chen about the changes he's made, which appear to be uncharacteristically (for BlackBerry) wise. What does 2014 hold?
This story could easily have been about the breakup and buyout of BlackBerry. Having hung up a "for sale" sign, lost its CEO Thorsten Heins, failed on plans to go private, and announced a quarterly loss of $4 billion--all within less than six months--guessing that BlackBerry wouldn't make it into 2014 wasn't much of a stretch. In early December, BusinessWeek even published an oral history called "The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry" at a time when BlackBerry employees were still turning up to work.