RIM Ships 500K Playbooks During Fiscal Q2, Will Announce Layoffs

From DailyTech: We reported earlier today that dark clouds were looming over Research In Motion. This afternoon, RIM announced its fiscal Q2 earnings and things aren't looking so pretty. The company reported net income of $695 million for the quarter compared to $934 million in fiscal Q1. Its fiscal Q2 earnings were also down compared to the $769 million in made in the same quarter last year.

RIM stock is taking a beating in after hours trading, currently down 15.11 percent to $29.93.

When it comes to hardware sales, RIM announced that it shipped over 13 million BlackBerry smartphones and roughly 500,000 Playbook tablets. RIM wouldn't specify how many Playbooks it has actually sold at this point.

For his part, RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsille had this to say about this company's performance during fiscal Q2:

Fiscal 2012 has gotten off to a challenging start. The slowdown we saw in the first quarter is continuing into Q2, and delays in new product introductions into the very late part of August is leading to a lower than expected outlook in the second quarter. RIM’s business is profitable and remains solid overall with growing market share in numerous markets around the world and a strong balance sheet with almost $3 billion in cash. We believe that with the new products scheduled for launch in the next few months and realigning our cost structure, RIM will see strong profit growth in the latter part of fiscal 2012.

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