Layoffs Begin at RIM

Macgasm writes, Research in Motion (RIM), the company who makes the dying Blackberry platform and hardware, has been having a tough past few months. With their stocks recently tanking to the single digits and their mobile marketshare at only 6.4%, it doesn’t look like the future is very bright for RIM as of now. Yesterday certainly didn’t seem like a highlight: on June 19, RIM announced that they will begin layoffs, but will not be giving any specific numbers as to how many people are being let go. These layoffs aren’t new to RIM either. Last summer RIM laid off around 2,000 employees, which made their total workforce around 16,500 employees....

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