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BlackBerry said Friday it lost a net $965 million in its Q2 on revenue of $1.6 billion; it had reported annet loss of $229 million on $2.9 billion revenue during the same period last year (http://bit.ly/1auNZ9J).nMuch of the net loss — $934 million — was due to a writedown for BlackBerry’s inventory of unsold Z10nsmartphones. The company had hoped the new touch-screen model would mean an improved economic outlook. BlackBerry sold 5.9 million mobile phones during the quarter, though most were older models; thencompany only recognized revenue from 3.7 million of the phones because the rest had been purchased beforenthe start of the quarter. BlackBerry had planned a conference call with investors Friday, but cancelled it afterntop shareholder Fairfax Financial reached an agreement to buy the company and take it private.