5 reasons Facebook should buy RIM
A friend of mine who is a firmware designer for RIM told me 6 months ago that RIM would be bought out by a larger company some time this year. I wonder if FaceBook is that company?
Facebook, always the life of the social media bad boy party, is on quite a roll these days.
Claiming it wanted to drive more users to take advantage of its fancy new messaging services, Facebook took it upon itself to change the default contact email address
of millions of users to their facebook.com addresses. To make a bad
situation worse, that change generated an additional headache for
smartphone users who had set up their devices to auto-sync contacts with
their Facebook accounts. Countless messages were lost after emails were
sent to facebook.com inboxes that hadn't been activated.
This isn't exactly how Facebook, wrestling with weak post-IPO share values, is going to win friends in the executive suite.
Yet the company could make all of this go away in one fell swoop: Either buy a piece of Research In Motion or initiate some form of partnership with the beleaguered BlackBerry maker.
A friend of mine who is a firmware designer for RIM told me 6 months ago that RIM would be bought out by a larger company some time this year. I wonder if FaceBook is that company?
