Cell Phone Digest (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Research In Motion, RBC and Thomson Reuters, today announced plans to launch the BlackBerry Partners Fund, a US$150 million venture capital fund, to invest in mobile applications and services for the BlackBerry platform and other mobile platforms. The Fund is to be co-managed by JLA Ventures and RBC Venture Partners.
Moco News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
If Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) can do it, then so can we. Just a few weeks after Apple announced its $100 million iFund dedicated to applications for the iPhone and iPod touch platforms, RIM ( NSDQ: RIMM ) said today that along with media giant Thomson ( NYSE: TOC ) Reuters ( NSDQ: RTRSY ) it was planning to launch a $150 million venture capital fund that would invest in mobile applications...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Hot on the heels of the BlackBerry Bold comes the news that the company behind it is to start up its own venture capital firm. The BlackBerry Partners Fund is a bunk up between RIM and Thomson...
IntoMobile (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Google has a $10 million contest for Android developers, Apple the iFund and RIM has just announced a $150 million BlackBerry Partners Fund along with RBC, Thomson Reuters, and several private Canadian investors. Agnostic to both stage and balance sheet, the BlackBerry Partners Fund will not restrict the development of mobile applications and services to any [...]
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Research In Motion, the Waterloo, Ontario, producer of the BlackBerry communications system, and Thomson Reuters said Monday that they would launch a US$150 million venture-capital fund to invest in applications and services for the BlackBerry and other mobile platforms. Thomson Reuters is the Toronto information-services group. BlackBerry Partners...
Tech Startups 3.0 (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
"Research In Motion (RIM) (TSX: RIM - News ; NASDAQ: RIMM - News ), RBC (RY: TSX; RY: NYSE) and Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI - News ; TSX: TRI - News ; LSE: TRIL - News ; NASDAQ: TRIN - News ), today announced plans to launch the BlackBerry® Partners Fund, a US$150 million venture capital fund, to invest in mobile applications and services for the BlackBerry® platform and other mobile platforms....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
TORONTO, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Research In Motion (RIM) (TSX: RIM; NASDAQ: RIMM), RBC (RY: TSX; RY: NYSE) and Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL; NASDAQ: TRIN), today anno...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
New fund to mark "mobile" as the new frontier TORONTO, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Research In Motion (RIM) (TSX: RIM; NASDAQ: RIMM), RBC (RY: TSX; RY: NYSE) and Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL; NASDAQ: TRIN), today announced plans to launch the BlackBerry(R) Partners Fund, a US$150 million venture capital fund, to invest in mobile applications and services for the...
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Thomson Corp.'s $17 billion acquisition of Reuters Group PLC on April 17 could mean a lot more growth for Albuquerque-based ProLaw Software.
cellular-news (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Research In Motion (RIM) and Thomson Reuters have announced plans to launch a US$150 million venture capital fund, to invest in mobile applications and services for the BlackBerry platform and other mobile platforms.
iTWire - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
BlackBerry developer Research in Motion, The Royal Bank of Canada and Thomson Reuters are to launch a $US150 million venture capital fund to invest in mobile applications and services for...
i4U (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
RIM and Thomson Reuters today announced plans to launch the BlackBerry Partners Fund, a US$150 million venture capital fund, to invest in mobile applications and services for the BlackBerry platform and other mobile platforms. The Fund is to be co-managed ...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Updated: For more, also see our Q&A with one of the partners managing the Blackberry fund Research In Motion, the RBC and Thomson Reuters have invested in an $150 million venture investment fund, called the BlackBerry Partners Fund, to support developers of applications running primarily on the Blackberry. The fund comes on the heels of [...]
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Research In Motion and Thomson Reuters have created an $150 million venture investment fund, called the BlackBerry Partners Fund, to support developers building applications that run on the Blackberry. The fund comes on the heels of the iFund, a similar $100 million fund announced by Kleiner Perkins, a well-known Silicon Valley venture capital firm, [...]
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Longs Drug Stores Corp. said late Thursday its April same-store sales fell 1.5% while same-store pharmacy sales decreased 0.5%. Analysts, on average, had expected same-store sales to rise 0.5%, according to Thomson Reuters. Total sales for the four-weeks ended May 1 climbed 0.4% to $366 million. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on...
