BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian multinational company specialising in enterprise software and the Internet of things.

Originally known as Research In Motion (RIM), it developed the BlackBerry brand of smartphones and tablets. It transitioned to an enterprise software and services company under Chief Executive Officer John S. Chen. Its products are used by various businesses, car makers, and government agencies.

They include BlackBerry Cylance’s artificial intelligence based cyber-security solutions, the BlackBerry AtHoc emergency communication system (ECS) platform; the QNX real-time operating system; and BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BlackBerry Unified Endpoint Manager), a Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) platform. BlackBerry was founded in 1984 as Research In Motion by Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin.

Traded as:           TSX: BB;     NYSE: BB

Industry:              Software

Founded:            March 7, 1984; 36 years ago, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Founders:           Mike Lazaridis;     Douglas Fregin

Headquarters:   Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Products:            

• BlackBerry
• BlackBerry Messenger
• BlackBerry Enterprise Server
• BlackBerry Internet Service
• QNX

Subsidiaries:       Cylance

Website:              www.blackberry.com