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Motorola Mobility said Thursday that it planned to establish a new center in Waterloo, located an hour’s drive from Toronto.

“We have here a small space and we are planning to grow considerably,” said Derek Phillips, director of engineering at Motorola Canada.

declined to specify the number of new hires, but said the company was looking for talent in engineering and computer science.

Google acquired Motorola Mobility last year in a contract of 12,500 million dollars given ownership of a patent comprehensive communications package. Since then he has taken steps to relaunch the business mobile deficit.

Google, which has a separate and development center in Waterloo, is one of the hundreds of technology firms with a presence in the city, attracted in part by the good preparation of graduates in computer science, programming and computer engineering from the University city.

The vast majority of them are small startups seeking success he achieved BlackBerry, later called Research in Motion, after pioneering the pocket email in the 90s.

But things have changed for BlackBerry, which said on Friday it would cut about 4,500 jobs, more than a third of its workforce, and submit a quarterly loss of nearly 1,000 million.

job cuts likely will mean a setback for the city and regional economy, as the ripple effect on suppliers, real estate and local service providers.

The latest layoffs follow other cuts in the last three years, as Blackberry has been losing ground to competitors like Apple and phones that use Google’s Android operating system.

Monday, BlackBerry said it had reached an agreement to sell for 4,700 million dollars to a consortium led by its largest shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings.

It is unclear whether the sale, if it goes ahead, will result in a reduction of jobs.

HIRING

Phillips

not link the expansion of Motorola BlackBerry’s problems, but said the talent was key to the appeal of the area.

“The objective is to get as many people as are interested and hire as many people as we can. believe that whenever we can find really good people, find a way to hire them,” he said.

Hiring

not come to cover the hole left by cuts BlackBerry, but members of the local community reported that Motorola is not the only one looking to expand in the region.

/ By Cameron French /