Executives from both Blackberry and Facebook are currently in talks for possible acquisition, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
Weeks have passed since high ranking officials of BlackBerry has started searching and meeting people who are very interested in acquiring the company.
There are also reports saying that Canadian Fairfax Financial has already bid $4.7 billion for the company. A couple of Lenovo’s founders, on the other hand, would like to buy the remaining stocks.
This time, it’s the social network giant Facebook who shows interest in buying the striving phone company.
Last week, executives of BlackBerry paid a visit to Facebook’s headquarters to “gauge its interest in a potential bid for the struggling company." Both companies declined to comment about it.
Just hearing the news of the meeting of the two companies drove different speculations that something big is up. But what could have driven Facebook to consider buying BlackBerry? Well, it could definitely be about a couple of things: either the hardware or messaging capabilities.
Believe it or not the company we call “struggling” is still one of the tech companies that display expertise when it comes to smartphone hardware business. Not just that, the company is also skilled and proficient when it comes to messaging and e-mail storage.
The company’s expertise in messaging is once again proven by the success of the recently launched BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application in Android phones and iPhone. Though they say it is “too late” for BlackBerry to make a huge comeback in the mobile message market again, it is still worthy to note that many patiently waited, worked really hard and spent their time signing up and downloading BBM on their phones.
