BLACKBERRY Ltd: management transactions · United States · SEC (Form 4)

About BLACKBERRY Ltd

BlackBerry Ltd is a technology company listed on the U.S. NYSE under the ticker BB, although its headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. For English-speaking investors, BlackBerry is best understood today as a specialized software and cybersecurity group rather than as the handset maker it once was. Founded in 1984, the company has spent the past several years reshaping itself around three operating segments: QNX, Secure Communications, and Licensing. That strategic shift is central to assessing the stock on the NYSE in the United States. QNX is the company’s core long-duration growth engine. It supplies mission-critical embedded software used in automotive, industrial, and robotics applications, including real-time operating systems, digital cockpit platforms, functional safety software, and building blocks for software-defined vehicles. BlackBerry says QNX monetizes primarily through volume-based royalties and software licenses, typically bundled with support, maintenance, and professional services. Secure Communications is the second pillar and includes BlackBerry UEM, AtHoc, and SecuSUITE, covering unified endpoint management, crisis communication, and encrypted communications for enterprises and public-sector customers. Licensing is the third segment and focuses on the management and monetization of the company’s global patent portfolio. Competitively, BlackBerry occupies niches where security, certification, and reliability matter more than scale alone. QNX has a long-standing position in automotive embedded systems, while Secure Communications addresses demand for digital sovereignty, especially among government and regulated customers. The company also emphasizes its use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity and its global footprint, with offices across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Recent developments underline the company’s ongoing simplification and repositioning. In 2025 and 2026, BlackBerry relaunched the QNX brand, expanded partnerships with Vector, TTTech Auto, and Microsoft, and secured new certifications and government authorizations for its secure communications offerings. In February 2025, the sale of Cylance endpoint security assets to Arctic Wolf was completed, further clarifying the portfolio. More recently, the company reported improving momentum in QNX and renewed traction in sovereign communications solutions. Overall, BlackBerry remains a specialty technology name at the intersection of automotive software, cybersecurity, and critical embedded systems.