“Apple Inc. has all but destroyed BlackBerry Ltd.’s business model and now it’s after the Canadian company’s decimated workforce,” Armina Ligaya and Matt Hartley report for The Financial Post.
“Just days after BlackBerry Ltd. revealed plans to lay off 40% of its global workforce amid disastrous financial results, representatives from smartphone rival Apple Inc. hosted a recruitment drive roughly 20 kilometres away from the embattled technology company’s Waterloo, Ont. home base,” Ligaya and Hartley report. “‘Most positions will be based in Cupertino, CA.,’ according to a LinkedIn invite sent to certain BlackBerry employees and obtained by the Financial Post. ‘Relocation and immigration assistance will be provided for candidates that are hired, as needed.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Here’s hoping Apple gets many fine employees from this recruitment drive.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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