Kelly Cutrara

BlackBerry Ltd. once was the forerunner of the world’s global business and political elites with its line of eponymous smartphones, but by the end of this financial year will stop designing, ordering and selling the handsets that were integral to its brand in the beginning days “The company plans to end all internal hardware development and will outsource that function to partners,” CEO John Chen announced in a company press release, ending a 20-year run in the mobile hardware market that began with the launch of its two-way messaging pagers in 1996. Tech expert, Ted Kritsonis, joins Kelly Cutrara to discuss the recent development from Blackberry Ltd.