BlackBerry lays off 4,500 employees as stock trading is halted

Updated on Friday, September 20, 2013 at 8:09PM by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Troubling news coming out of Waterloo today. BlackBerry has announced it will cut 4,500 jobs across its operations and will report a second-quarter loss of $950 million. As a result of this news, trading of BlackBerry stock was halted Friday aftertoon pending the revised outlook. Shares for BlackBerry were dowb more than 17 per cent at the close of trading at $8.73.

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‘Jobs’ movie trailer hits Instagram

If you thought 60 seconds is too long to watch a movie trailer, the creators behind Steve Jobs’ biopic Jobs are tapping into your short attention span by releasing a 15-second trailer on Instagram, a first on the photo- and video-sharing service.

This comes hot off the heels of Instagram allowing photo and video embedding for their Web version. What do you think of this new marketing ploy?

New trailer for Steve Jobs’ biopic

The first trailer for the upcoming movie “Jobs”—the Steve Jobs’ biopic starring Ashton Kutcher—just made its way online roughly a month or so before the movie opens on August 16. Jobs is also starring Dermot Mulroney, Lukas Haas, Matthew Modine, and J.K. Simmons.

What are your thoughts on the movie? Are you going to watch it? We’d love to hear what you have to say.

Video: A scene from the upcoming Steve Jobs "jOBS" biopic

ET Online got hold of this scene from the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic titled jOBS which stars Ashton Kucher in the title role. This scene shows Jobs and Woz (Josh Gad) about to invent the personal computer for the rest of us. The jOBS biopic which will hit theatres on April 19th and focuses on various moments in the Apple founders life between 1971-2001. Kucher seems to have captured the gait and some of the manners of Steve Jobs, we can also see flashes of the intensity of his character. Another Steve Jobs biopic, to be penned by Aaron Sorkin is also currently under development but hasn't been cast yet.

Source: ET Online