BlackBerry Rises on Deal With Google for Android for Work

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BlackBerry Ltd.’s stock jumped after it announced a partnership with Google Inc. to allow the search giant’s suite of mobile productivity tools to run on the smartphone maker’s device management system.

The agreement lets businesses and governments running BlackBerry’s BES12 software integrate Android for Work, which Google rolled outBloomberg Terminal today, BlackBerry said in a statementBloomberg Terminal.