Is BlackBerry spinning off BBM as a direct competitor to WhatsApp and Viber?

Charlee Gothard
clock • 1 min read

Sources say struggling phone company is making a play for the messaging landscape

Reports suggest that BlackBerry is looking at spinning off its BlackBerry Messenger service as a standalone business, positioned to compete with such consumer stalwarts as WhatsApp and Viber. Wh...

To continue reading this article...

Join Computing

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the technology industry
  • Receive important and breaking news in our daily newsletter
  • Be the first to hear about our events and awards programmes
  • Join live member only interviews with IT leaders at the ‘IT Lounge’; your chance to ask your burning tech questions and have them answered
  • Access to the Computing Delta hub providing market intelligence and research
  • Receive our members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from senior IT Leaders

Join now

 

Already a Computing member?

Login

You may also like
The biggest tech stocks winners and losers in 2022

Corporate

Turbulent 2022 was a tough year for tech stocks

clock 23 January 2023 • 12 min read
Interview: BlackBerry, UK IT Industry Awards finalist

Leadership

Highlighting public sector IT

clock 07 December 2022 • 4 min read

Security Technology

AI-enhanced security is bringing intelligence to the protection of valuable assets in more ways than one

clock 21 April 2020 • 1 min read

More on Business Software

Greggs forced to close stores due to IT glitch

Greggs forced to close stores due to IT glitch

Some stores unable to process payments

Penny Horwood
clock 20 March 2024 • 2 min read
Oracle promises AI everywhere at Cloudworld 2024

Oracle promises AI everywhere at Cloudworld 2024

Integrated across the Fusion Suite

Tom Allen
clock 19 March 2024 • 6 min read
McDonald's blames 'configuration change' for global outage

McDonald's blames 'configuration change' for global outage

Customers not lovin' it

clock 18 March 2024 • 3 min read