BlackBerry rumoured to have met Facebook about potential bid
BlackBerry is rumoured to have met with Facebook last week in order to gauge the interest of the platform to buy the phone maker.
Sources revealed the meeting between executives to the Wall Street Journal just a month after it was announced that Fairfax Financial Holdings, BlackBerry’s biggest shareholder, offered the company a $4.7bn buyout.
It is currently unclear if Facebook is interested in placing a bid for the phone company, which reported nearly $1bn in losses for the second quarter of 2013.
Last week, BlackBerry launched its BBM service for iPhone and Android to ‘unprecedented’ demand, with over six million people pre-registering for alerts before the launch.