Blackberry’s announcement that is chipping staff in his hometown, Waterloo , in Canada, has attracted i nterest of other tech firms in the area .
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Motorola Mobility , owned by Google has announced that establish a center in that city to use local talent orphan would be fired after the Blackberry.
“We have here a small space and we are planning to grow considerably “, said Derek Phillips , director of engineering at Motorola Canada. While declining to specify the number of new hires, said the company was looking engineering talent and computer science.
Google acquired Motorola Mobility last year in a contract of $ s12.500 million given ownership of a patent comprehensive communications package. Since then he has taken steps to relaunch the business mobile deficit.
Google 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 at the local university said Reuters .
things have changed for BlackBerry , which said on Friday it would cut approximately 4,500 jobs , more than a third of their endowment after presenting a quarterly loss or nearly $ 1,000 million.
The latest layoffs follow other cuts in the last three years, as Blackberry has been losing ground to competitors like Apple and phones using the Android operating system of Google.
Derek Phillips
expansion linked Motorola with BlackBerry problems but said 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. I think whenever we can find really good people, find a way to hire them ,” he said.
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