{"id":30256,"date":"2013-01-21T11:46:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T09:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=30256"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T09:48:37","slug":"rim-to-sell-hardware-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/30256\/rim-to-sell-hardware-division\/","title":{"rendered":"RIM to sell hardware division?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research in Motion will look into strategic alliances with other technology companies once it has launched its new BlackBerry 10 models, its chief executive told a German newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>German-born CEO Thorsten Heins told daily Die Welt in an interview published on Monday that the group&#8217;s strategic review could lead to the sale of RIM&#8217;s hardware production or the sale of licenses to its software, among other options.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main thing for now is to successfully introduce Blackberry 10. Then we&#8217;ll see,&#8221; Heins was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>RIM hopes its re-engineered line of Blackberry 10 touch-screen and keyboard devices will win back market share lost to rivals such as Apple&#8217;s iPhone and devices powered by Google&#8217;s market-leading Android operating system.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More RIM and BlackBerry 10 news<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"RIM shares slump on subscriber concerns\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/28899\/rim-shares-slump-on-subscriber-concerns\/\"><strong>RIM shares slump on subscriber concerns<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BlackBerry 10 SA launch date confirmed\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/28881\/blackberry-10-sa-launch-date-confirmed\/\"><strong>BlackBerry 10 SA launch date confirmed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/67258-rim-begins-blackberry-10-tests.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/67258-rim-begins-blackberry-10-tests.html\"><strong>RIM begins BlackBerry 10 tests<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BlackBerry 10 gets consideration from feds\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/28532\/blackberry-10-gets-consideration-from-feds\/\"><strong>BlackBerry 10 gets consideration from feds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research in Motion will look into strategic alliances with other technology companies once it has launched its new BlackBerry 10 models<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,2602,5025,157],"class_list":["post-30256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-blackberry-10","tag-hardware-sale","tag-rim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30258,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30256\/revisions\/30258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}