{"id":50161,"date":"2013-08-28T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=50161"},"modified":"2013-08-28T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T08:08:02","slug":"bbm-inc","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/bbm-inc","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Considering Spinning off BBM Service into Separate Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 33px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/static.knowyourmobile.com\/sites\/knowyourmobilecom\/files\/styles\/gallery_wide\/public\/bbm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" \/>BlackBerry is considering spinning off its BlackBerry Messenger service into a separate unit, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323407104579038771000828780.html\" target=\"_blank\">sources cited in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>The WSJ reports that the subsidiary would be called BBM Inc. However, BlackBerry is refusing to comment &#8220;on rumour and speculation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of this potential spin off, BlackBerry will launch BBM for both Android and iOS, two competing software platforms. According to WSJ&#8217;s sources familiar with the matter, that should happen &#8220;in the next few weeks.&#8221; Following that, the Waterloo company may also bring BBM to the desktop, similar to how Apple did with iMessage on the iMac.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/blackberry-smartphone-division-may-be-worthless-2013-08-26\" target=\"_blank\">BlackBerry is For Sale, but What&#8217;s It Worth?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BBM currently has about 60 million users. Over the years its feature list has expanded to include such things as video calling over wifi and BBM channels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry is considering spinning off its BlackBerry Messenger service into a separate unit, according to sources cited in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ reports that the subsidiary would be called BBM Inc. However, BlackBerry is refusing to comment &#8220;on rumour and speculation.&#8221; Ahead of this potential spin off, BlackBerry will launch BBM for both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1358,"featured_media":50163,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-50161","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/50161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/50161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/50163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50161"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=50161"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=50161"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=50161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}