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BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian software company headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, founded in 1984 as Research In Motion. Once dominant in mobile devices through its iconic BlackBerry smartphones with physical keyboards, the company exited handset manufacturing in the 2010s and reinvented itself as an enterprise software and cybersecurity provider. Today BlackBerry focuses on secure communications, endpoint security, and embedded systems, with its QNX operating system widely used in automotive electronics, medical devices, and industrial equipment. The company serves governments and large enterprises with solutions for threat detection, secure messaging, and the management of connected devices across the Internet of Things. BlackBerry’s transformation reflects a broader shift away from consumer hardware toward software, data security, and safety-critical embedded platforms.