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Title: WhatsApp Gives BlackBerry a Bounce Post by: HCK on February 21, 2014, 02:00:27 pm WhatsApp Gives BlackBerry a Bounce
Facebook's $19 billion purchase of mobile-messaging service WhatsApp appears to have buoyed the value of BlackBerry Messenger -- and by extension, BlackBerry. BlackBerry shares went up nearly 10 percent in after-hours trading because, in the words of Reuters, Facebook's purchase "put a rough valuation metric around the smartphone maker's own BlackBerry Messaging service," also known as "BBM." Source: WhatsApp Gives BlackBerry a Bounce (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80012.html?rss=1) |