RIM plans to sell BlackBerry

RIM is considering a plan to split its BlackBerry phone division and messaging network into two separate companies and sell the problematic BlackBerry , reports The Verge with reference to The Sunday Times . Among potential buyers, the British newspaper calls the company Facebook and Amazon .

As part of this plan, RIM may retain its corporate messaging and data network (including BBM and BIS ) and grant licenses to it to other companies, as former co-director Jim Balsilli suggested before leaving the company. According to The Sunday Times , the Canadian company, in cooperation with RBC and JP Morgan , has conducted a strategic analysis since the beginning of this year, and this plan is one of the options prepared in the process. Another option is to sell a large stake in a corporation, such as Microsoft , for example.

RIM Director Thorsten Heins has said over the past months that the company does not want to sell and that it is exploring "the possibilities of using the BlackBerry platform in partnerships, licensing options and alternative strategic business models." According to the British newspaper, the final RIM plan will be known this summer, which will be long before the release of BlackBerry 10 . It is not entirely clear where the new operating system will then remain, the success of which was called crucial for improving the company's business.
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June 28, RIM is going to present its financial performance; according to the director of the company, it is “likely to be an operating loss.” Meanwhile, the stock price continues to fall lower and lower, and The Globe and Mail reported last month that large-scale layoffs would be part of the strategy — at least two thousand people, which is 12% of all employees.