It reported other bad news as well, a month before introducing its new BlackBerry 10 phones to the public. Revenue fell 48 percent in the company’s fiscal third quarter, ended Dec. 1, to $2.7 billion from $5.2 billion a year earlier.
After a favorable tax gain, RIM reported net income of $9 million, or 2 cents a share. A year ago during the same period, RIM earned $265 million, or 51 cents a share. The company said that using nonstandard accounting methods to adjust for the tax gain and other pretax charges led to an adjusted net loss of $114 million for the third quarter, or 22 cents per share.
Research in Motion said on Thursday that it lost a million BlackBerry owners worldwide during the company’s last financial quarter, the first such decline in the device’s history.
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