Wednesday, August 28, 2013

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BlackBerry BBM is going to allocate a separate company

BlackBerry BBM is going to allocate a separate company

According to the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the Canadian BlackBerry vvdeleniya discussing the possibility of a separate company of the division in charge of the release of messenger BBM. In addition, the company is working on Android-version of BBM and plans in the future to release a desktop version of the system.

Sources at the company say that the leadership BlackBerry now is thinking about whether it will be an independent company, or an internal division, but with a high degree of autonomy. One way or another, but the BlackBerry begins to withdraw from the structure of the most valuable assets in anticipation of the sale or technological partnership with any of the other IT players.

 At the same time, the company changes the structure of several leading cadres to a BBM-podrazdelelenii was a full staff management . Recall that in May of this year, the head of the BlackBerry Thorsten Heins said that soon the BBM for the first time in its history, will work on "something other than BlackBerry", competing with WhatsApp, Viber and other popular instant messengers. Also the company is going to present a new previously unannounced service BBM Channels, which will look like a Twitter-like tool that enables the public to people to interact more closely with fans. It can also be used to interact superiors and subordinates, or sellers with buyers.

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