TORONTO: BlackBerry on Friday said it was entering a handset production deal that lowers the risk it will have to take more massive writedowns on unsold smartphones, and its shares surged even though it posted dismal quarterly results.The stock rose as much as 17% after the company announced the five-year partnershipwith Taiwan's Foxconn Technology, which will initially build low-end devices for sale in Indonesia and other emerging markets.BlackBerry said it hoped to expand the fledgling relationship to its top-of-the-line smartphones.
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