BlackBerry is a leading Canadian communications company whose primary business is providing wireless communications devices - BlackBerry handsets - to its customers. The company was founded by Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie in 1984 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario. Since its introduction in 1999, BlackBerry has won the hearts of business people and dignitaries with its unique wireless information services that support pushed email, mobile phones, text messaging, web fax and web browsing.