Is RIM Interested In Selling Your Business To Samsung?

Tuesday 17th of January 2012 08:31:11 PM

Presented in this news is a juicy round of rumors about , the makers of devices. None of them is close to be confirmed by any party, but the sources aregood to at least take a look at our page.

The first one does not sell hardware or software, but directly to companies, or divisions thereof. According to the people of BGR, Canadians have again considered the option to detach from any part of the company, or even whole.

RIM is a company with many clients and important assets, but is not the best time to withstand the pull that Apple and Google have stuck on mobile devices. The trend is that it will lose market share as time passes, and their leaders must do something out of it.

Already there was talk at the end of year approaches with large companies such as Amazon, and even were on the table names such as HTC and , both with regard to a purchase to license the OS from . The information laid well economically to the company.

Samsung interested


Positions in a situation once, new rumors appearing on the scene is in the interest of in the Canadian company, for several reasons: differentiate itself from Google at different levels, with themselves as BBM, and operating system services.

It is an open secret that one of the CEOs, Jim Balsillie, is having meetings with many important companies in the market, the interest you have, they are open to listen. In the case of , as with Amazon, the thing not advances to be asking too muchmoney: refers to 15 billion dollars, when its market capitalization is less than 9 billion $.

Logically no company makes statements on the matter, and one possibility is that nothing happens, but the reality is that the heads of seem to have no problem in talking to potential buyers.

New tablets in sight

This is the second news of the day around , again without any confirmation or proof, and is about two tablets and a phone, with the new operating system, appearing in a Canadian company RoadMap event (all of them for the year 2012).

In a year complicated which already leaked cancellation Milan, and above the 10-inch tablet, is a good to hear things about new equipment again. Refers to:

* a new 7-inch model, this time with 3 G connectivity, it would not be necessary a to serve connectivity
* another 10-inch, possibly canceled model, with support LTE
* a 10 phone, all indications are that it will be London. The new operating system will be displayed * in the 2012 MWC in Barcelona
* also expected a couple of Curves new