Some 250 BlackBerry employees working at the company's testing facility in Waterloo were laid off on Tuesday and the news was confirmed by the manufacturer on Wednesday; those let go had been working at the new products testing area, working on manufacturing and R&D. The company said that it had to let the 250 go in order to correctly scale for what it called "new opportunities"...Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/250-workers-axed-at-BlackBerry_id45718
