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To: Jurgis Bekepuris who wrote (46202)	1/17/2012 2:57:50 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78710

RIM Gains on Report of Samsung Interest By Scott Moritz - Jan 17, 2012 10:34 AM PT bloomberg.com From the article:"...Samsung may be interested in buying RIM, and no deal has been made because Waterloo, Ontario- based RIM is asking too much, the blog BGR reported today, without identifying its sources...." <snip> "...“This has been speculated before, and it does have logic to it in the sense that Samsung has no viable high-end smartphone operating system, and increasingly reselling Android or Windows Phone is being viewed as a commodity business,” said Tavis McCourt, a Morgan Keegan and Co. analyst in Nashville, Tennessee...." ------------------------------------------------------------------- Short of an acquisition, RIM could strike a technology- licensing deal with Samsung . . . That might add some value to RIM. Similar to what NOK has down w/ MSFT. EKS