No No RIM is not Reliance India Mobile but the acronym for the Blackberry makers Research In Motion.
Just stumbled across (this) found it very very fascinating but would Google make such a purchase who knows but In my opinion don’t think so my reasons being the price tag is too big even for a company like Google with huge pile of cash and they can easily raise a bit more if needed to fund such a acquisition but will they be able to digest and integrate this into their offerings is what would be interesting to see if this does go through with the $54.13B price tag it can go more then that too.
Well with such an acquisition they would not just get a ready made hardware platform the blackberry but they also get a very important chunk of the corp clients who are users of the RIM platform so the only thing left for them would be integrating the hardware with their hosted applications for corporate domains and viola an enterprise class mobile collaboration suite and I guess that Google is bound to announce something huge since they have already taken their cash cow Adsense mobile so the Gphone is definitely on its way whether blackberry turns into a Gphone or there is another route Google will take only time will tell and their recent acquisition of zingku also shows their interest in the mobile space this is important for them in countries like India and China where the mobile penetration is more then PC penetration and they are definitely lagging in both this countries but so far Google’s mobile strategy has been a bit shaky am still wondering why they bought dodgeball some time back and their founders quit and left on an unhappy note with lot of media attention at their claims of how Google was not providing them with no resources to take the product further.
) this buy might have smart people working on a good product but where does the product fit into Google’s offering unless they want to put that in google pack and throw norton and spyware doctor out from there ( might be ) or they might be worried about buying licenses of antivirus products for their internal users since their workforce is increasing at such a rapid pace now so it might make sense to have a antivirus company in house (hahahahahaha this is the lamest reason ever but you never know
) with all the money which is piling up in Googles bank account
and also it does not make you come back looking for more information the way Google does)