Strong candidates to buy BlackBerry are interested such as Google and Cisco.They lorgneraient actually the secure messaging.
For sale, BlackBerry holds "strategic" assets of interest powerful actors technology. According to Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter, Cisco and Google and SAP America, the German publisher of software for companies, have begun talks to acquire all or part of the Canadian firm.
A priori, given the profile of the potential buyers, it would be less activity than the smartphones routing secure BlackBerry emails that interest them, because of its strategic dimension service.
It is used by large companies and government agencies, especially in North America, who appreciate that the data is encrypted. Most recently, the latest version of its enterprise server (Enterprise Service 10), used for the exchange of secure and from smartphones emails, has been certified by the organization of NATO.
Services activity represents 46% of quarterly revenue
This email service may be separated from the terminal activity. It could be assigned to an actor wishing to strengthen in services to corporate and government administrations. Services activity accounted for 46% of sales last known quarter (June to August 2013) Blackberry.
The other assets "strategic" interests rather that industrial manufacturing smartphones (it mentions the name of Samsung), consists of the portfolio of technology patents. It could also be a separate assignment.
It remains to evaluate these assets separately for their eventual disposal. To date, only the Fairfax fund has made a firm bid on the entire firm for about $ 4.7 billion. He has until November 4, 2013 to meet its funding and confirm its intention.
Until that date, other potential buyers also have access to the file, as long as an agreement of confidentiality.
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