As the Blackberry will cut its staff at its headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, other technology companies, including Google with its unity Motorola, are moving to make a reservation growing local talent.
Motorola Mobility said Thursday that it plans to install a new plant in Waterloo, which is about an hour’s drive west of Toronto.
“We have a small space at the moment and plan to grow considerably,” said Derek Phillips, director of engineering at Motorola Canada. He declined to specify the number of new hires but said the company was seeking talents in engineering and computer science.
The vast majority of businesses are small local technology startups seeking to stand out as the BlackBerry, then called Research in Motion, made when he was a pioneer in e-mails to phones in the 90s.
But times have changed for the BlackBerry, which said on Friday it would lay off about 4,500 employees, more than a third of its staff in the world, having also disclosed losses of nearly $ 1 billion in the quarter.
On Monday, the BlackBerry said it had entered into an agreement to be sold for $ 4.7 billion to a consortium led by its main shareholder, Fairfax Financial Holdings. At the moment it is unclear whether the sale, if complete, will result in more layoffs.
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