3/18/2012 10:07:00 PM
dannzfay
There has been much talk on a possible buyout of Research In Motion by stronger players in the market. However, there are zero to none chances that this will happen anytime soon as the Canadian government is completely against any outright buyout of the company.
South-Korean giant Samsung seems to have a solid interest in RIM's business. In fact, the company is looking to make a minor investment in RIM.
According to Barrons, citing a source close to the matter, Samsung may not be able to gain anything from a minority stake, so the company is trying to license RIM's BlackBerry 10 operating system.
It appears that Samsung is still rattled by the recent acquisition of Motorola by Google, and wants to counter the search giant's move with a move of its own.
If it cannot buyout RIM, Samsung's next move seems to be the development of phones based on the upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS.
James Chung, Samsung spokesman, said in back in January, right after RIM's CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie stepped down: “We haven’t considered acquiring the firm and are not interested in (buying RIM)”.
However, as it stands, the situation is much worse for RIM than for Samsung, so the collaboration between the two companies may help the Canadian company a lot more than the other way around.
According to the latest hearsay, Samsung plans to strike a deal with RIM to build BlackBerry 10 OS phones as soon as the new mobile platform gets launched on the market.
Still, RIM might have something to lose in this deal as Samsung is a better handset manufacturer, so its BlackBerry 10 OS device will sell better and RIM's revenue will be hurt (again).
So far, nothing is certain but more details may surface this fall, Barrons claims.
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