BlackBerry To Acquire Good Technology For $425 Million

BlackBerry has agreed to purchase Good Technology for $425 million. Good Technology makes and sells mobile email products as well as mobile device management tools. 

BlackBerry said the acquisition "is aligned with BlackBerry's strategy to offer businesses the most complete, end to end solution that secures the entire mobile enterprise, across all platforms." 

Good Technology was purchased by Visto in 2009. Prior to being owned by Motorola. At one time, Visto successfully sued BlackBerry for patent infringement. BlackBerry said it expects to close the acquisition during its 2016 fiscal their quarter.


Source: Reuters

RIM To Hand Out BlackBerry 10 Prototype Smartphones

 

Research In Motion will give prototype BlackBerry 10 smartphones to as many as 2,000 developers who attend the BlackBerry 10 Jam conference that runs alongside the annual BlackBerry World expo in early May. The handsets will be prototypes that are running “a modified version of the PlayBook OS which will help developers design their apps for the BlackBerry 10 smartphone form factor,” a RIM spokesperson told BGR. The device will not be an early version of a device intended for release, RIM clarified. Instead, it is a reference platform intended to allow developers to test applications on a smartphone running the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha operating system. BlackBerry 10 Jam takes place from May 1st through May 3rd in Orlando, Florida.