BlackBerry’s Acquisition of AtHoc has been Finalized
A few months ago it was made known that BlackBerry was intending to acquire AtHoc; which provides emergency communications during crisis situations. This morning it was made public that the deal has now beeen officially finalized. AtHoc will will now be ran as a division of BlackBerry, and their CEO Guy Miasnik joining the BlackBerry Senior…
BlackBerry to Acquire EMM specialist Good Technology
In a surprise move, BlackBerry has just announced that it will acquire Good technology for $425M. It seems particularly interested in the containerization and secure application delivery technologies, which is good news for a company which seems to have shifted its focus on Android. Looking at the numbers provided by BlackBerry though, we can see that Good…
BlackBerry working to acquire AtHoc a secured network crisis communication company
BlackBerry has been ramping their secured communication arsenal and just today they announce their intent to acquire AtHOC. The company is based out of San Mateo, California already has some big name clients on their list which includes the U.S Department of Defense, Homeland Security, several branches of the U.S armed forces, among others. The…
Google Rumored To Be In Talks to Acquire WhatsApp
We have been getting so many emails about this rumor so I decided to just post it up. DigitalTrends claims that WhatsApp is negotiating with Google for their acquisition for “close to a billion.” There really is no other details to go on other than this rumor but it does seem plausible since Google…
Lenovo & RIM Downplay Rumor of Acquisition Talks
You have to love how rumors grow out of control. Bloomberg took a quote form Lenovo’s CFO Wong Waiming to mean that Lenovo was considering acquiring RIM. That spiraled out of control to the point where Lenovo offered the following quote to The Next Web. Essentially they are saying it was taken out of…
AT&T Acquires Rural Remains of Alltel for $780 Million
AT&T is still on the hunt for more spectrum even after losing out on acquiring T-Mobile. Their latest purchase is the remains of rural carrier Alltel after their acquisition by Verizon. This deal is for Alltel’s remaining 585,000 subscribers for $780 million along with Alltel’s remaining assets including their wireless spectrum, retail stores, and more….
RIM Acquired NewBay a Year Ago – Will It Power BlackBerry 10 Cloud Services?
One of RIM’s acquisitions that I have been following closely is when they purchased NewBay in Ireland back in October 2011. @BB10VW pointed out on Twitter that RIM actually made the acquisition official on October 26th, 2011 which makes it almost 1 year to the day. When RIM announced the acquisition they said that “NewBay…
RIM Paid ~$100 Million for Paratek Multi-Band Radio Acquisition
While rereading RIM’s Q1 Fiscal 2013 statement again I noticed that RIM mentioned their latest acquisition. The only acquisition RIM made in Q1 Fiscal 2013 was Paratek at the beginning of the quarter on April 8th, 2012. In RIM’s Q1 results statement they specified that: The total of cash, cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments…