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RIM Confirms Office Suite Acquisition

  • Wired, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 11:29 AM
RIM, in a likely attempt to show it still means business, has acquired the mobile office suite Documents to Go from DataViz. The deal had first been reported Friday by Crackberry.com, which had the terms at $50 million in cash, but RIM confirmed the acquisition Tuesday.

"Having Documents To Go in-house offers RIM terrific leverage," writes Wired. "They can use its InTact cloud-syncing software for all media files on the Blackberry; offer the premium version for free to enterprise customers; and package a new suite of productivity and enterprise apps for its forthcoming BlackPad tablet."

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