BlackBerry seeks to settle suit accusing it of fraudulently pumping up BlackBerry 10 demand

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At BlackBerry's request, a judge adjourned a trial against the company that was supposed to start tomorrow. Instead, settlement talks will begin.

, the company is seeking to settle a lawsuit that claimed BlackBerry committed fraud by pumping up the profitability of its defunct BlackBerry 10 line of phones. Today, a federal judge in Manhattan federal court, at BlackBerry's request, adjourned a trial so that a preliminary settlement could be negotiated for the class action suit.Jury selection was to start tomorrow. Any settlement between BlackBerry and the class will need approval from U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon.

In fact, BlackBerry 10 was a decent OS but did not have a fully stocked app storefront which led BlackBerry to finally give up and use Android on the BlackBerry Priv, a phone with a vertically sliding physical QWERTY keyboard.

 

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