BlackBerry to ask regulators to probe report on returns

With the aid of Euan Rocha and Emily Flitter TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – BlackBerry plans to ask securities regulators in Canada and the US to probe what it said is a "false and misleading" record that client return rates for BlackBerry's new Z10 smartphone had been especially high. The Canadian company, which has pinned its turnaround hopes on its new BlackBerry 10 line of smartphones, went on the offensive on Friday after the record from Boston-based totally research and funding agency Detwiler Fenton despatched its stock tumbling on Thursday. …