RIM plans to sell BlackBerry



    RIM is considering a plan to split its BlackBerry handset division and messaging network into two separate companies and sell the troubled BlackBerry , reports The Verge with reference to The Sunday Times . Among potential buyers, the British newspaper names the companies Facebook and Amazon .

    Under this plan, RIM can maintain its corporate messaging and data network (including BBM and BIS ) and license it to other companies - as former co-director Jim Balsilli suggested before leaving the company. According toThe Sunday Times , a Canadian company in collaboration with RBC and JP Morgan , conducted strategic analysis since the beginning of this year, and this plan is one of the options prepared in the process. Another option is to sell a large stake in a corporation, such as Microsoft .

    RIM director Thorsten Haines has said in recent months that the company does not want to sell and that it is exploring β€œthe possibilities to use the BlackBerry platform in partnerships, licensing options, and alternative strategic business models.” According to the British newspaper, the final RIM plan will become known this summer - which will be long before the release of BlackBerry 10 . It is not clear where the new operating system will remain, the success of which was called crucial for improving the company's affairs.

    June 28 RIMgoing to present its financial performance; According to the director of the company, this "is likely to be an operating loss." Meanwhile, stock prices continue to fall lower and lower, and The Globe and Mail reported last month that large-scale layoffs β€” at least two thousand people β€” 12% of all employees, will become part of the new strategy.

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