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Blackberry to turn messaging app into one-stop shop

Published Tue, Jun 28, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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BLACKBERRY Ltd is following the example of hugely popular Chinese app WeChat with a plan to turn its BBM messaging application into a one-stop shop for watching video, getting celebrity updates and shopping online.

Seeking to boost its software and services business as handset sales continue to decline, BlackBerry signed a deal with PT Elang Mahkota Teknologi Tbk (also known as Emtek), one of Indonesia's top media companies, to bring its video content onto BBM and begin developing new applications and services for the messaging app. Indonesia is a bastion of BlackBerry popularity, with 60 million of roughly 90 million worldwide BBM users living in the archipelago nation. The BBM…

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