The struggling smartphone company is said to have sat down with the social network last week. October 29, 2013 11:28 AM PDT BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Hein. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) BlackBerry is playing the field and courting all types of potential suitors before it sells itself to the most attractive bidder. The company is said to have even visited California last week to flirt with Facebook and solicit a buyout bid, the Wall Street Journal reported. When reached for comment, Facebook declined to discuss the matter as the company does not comment on rumor or speculation. If Facebook were to pursue a bid, it's immediate interest would likely be in BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) as opposed to going into the phone-making business. The social network has all but abandoned a hardware approach in getting consumers to take note of Facebook Home, the software suite it released on Android earlier this year. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also said repeatedly that it wouldn't be prudent for Facebook to build phones that would only be used by a small subset of its 1.15 billion members. This story is developing...
The struggling smartphone company is said to have sat down with the social network last week.
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Hein.
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)
BlackBerry is playing the field and courting all types of potential suitors before it sells itself to the most attractive bidder. The company is said to have even visited California last week to flirt with Facebook and solicit a buyout bid, the Wall Street Journal reported.
When reached for comment, Facebook declined to discuss the matter as the company does not comment on rumor or speculation.
If Facebook were to pursue a bid, it's immediate interest would likely be in BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) as opposed to going into the phone-making business. The social network has all but abandoned a hardware approach in getting consumers to take note of Facebook Home, the software suite it released on Android earlier this year. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also said repeatedly that it wouldn't be prudent for Facebook to build phones that would only be used by a small subset of its 1.15 billion members.
This story is developing...
