The death of Blackberry as a mass retail handset company has led to the licensing of its BBM platform to an Indonesian company. What's this got to do with Africa? CEO of BBM Matthew Talbot explained it all to Russell Southwood.
On June 27th 2016, Creative Media Works (a division of Emtek - one of Indonesia's largest media companies) announced a strategic alliance with BlackBerry to accelerate BBM's development and evolution by investing in bringing new and exciting consumer focused features, services and content to the BBM messaging application. As part of this strategy BBM is making it's API's available to accelerate the growth of partners and service such as:
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