Vodafone considering RIM acquisition?

RIM’s stock jumped yesterday on the rumour that Vodafone is considering acquiring the maker of BlackBerry. RIM’s market share is continuing to dwindle, and if the launch of QNX-powered smartphones early next year doesn’t pan out, they may very well be in the market for acquisition.
I find the rumour a little hard to swallow. Sure, service providers will partner up with manufacturers to help build the kind of phone they want to see on shelves, but how often do they take complete control of the manufacturing process? Of course, it’s possible that Vodafone is just interested in RIM’s back-end infrastructure, which provides secure, compressed, and speedy data delivery to BlackBerry devices. With... »read more

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