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Code/Mobile 2015: BlackBerry CEO John Chen

By Ina Fried
Re/code

At Code/Mobile, BlackBerry CEO John Chen tells Ina Fried that if the company doesn’t sell enough phones in the next year, it might get out of the handset business altogether. He has something else in mind, anyway.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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