{"id":618458,"date":"2026-04-21T08:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:58:15","slug":"blackberry-stock-up-13-per-cent-on-expanded-partnership-with-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618458\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry stock up 13 per cent on expanded partnership with Nvidia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">BlackBerry Ltd.&#8217;s share price popped by 13 per cent as the firm deepened its ties to tech giant Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Waterloo, Ont.-based software developer&#8217;s share price closed the trading day at $7.50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The rise came after BlackBerry announced it has expanded a partnership that will allow its developers to build and deploy AI systems for Nvidias&#8217; IGX Thor platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Nvidia&#8217;s IGX Thor is meant to be used in regulated environments for things like autonomous, humanoid and surgical robotics, medical imaging and industrial automation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">BlackBerry made its name in the smartphone business but has since transitioned to providing software for vehicles, medical devices and secure communications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Nvidia is one of the world&#8217;s most prominent tech companies, largely because of the graphics processing units it develops, which power artificial intelligence systems, data centres and advanced computers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Companies in this story: (TSX:BB)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Ltd.&#8217;s share price popped by 13 per cent as the firm deepened its ties to tech giant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45268,45,49,48,6494,17860,60259,944],"class_list":["post-618458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-blackberry","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nvidia","tag-share-price","tag-software-developer","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}