{"id":582200,"date":"2010-05-27T14:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-05-27:article\/419-blackberry-partners-fund-expands-to-china-with-100-million-to-burn"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:35:06","slug":"blackberry-partners-fund-expands-to-china-with-100-million-to-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582200","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Partners Fund Expands To China With $100 Million To Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 1px solid silver; padding: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0; float: left;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-blackberry-partners-fund-expands-to-china-with-100-million-to-burn\/\" title=\"Blackberry Curve\" class=\"image_link image\" id=\"128610_4429\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/images\/editorial\/f_small\/blackberry-curve-s.jpg\" alt=\"Blackberry Curve\" width=\"170\" height=\"128\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The BlackBerry Partners Fund <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberrypartnersfund.com\/blogs\/press\/blackberrypartnersfundexpandswith100mmaffiliatefun\" title=\"has expanded to China\">has expanded to China<\/a> with a $100 million fund through a new joint venture with China Broadband Capital Partners, a four-year-old investment firm. <\/p>\n<p>The two companies said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbpfchina.com\/\" title=\"The BlackBerry Partners Fund China\">The BlackBerry Partners Fund China<\/a> will invest exclusively in opportunities supporting &#8220;the emerging mobile ecosystem in China,&#8221; which is considered the world&#8217;s largest mobile market. The fund is expected to officially close at the end of August.\n<\/p>\n<p>No word on whether the Chinese start-ups must have a BlackBerry component or not, but it likely won&#8217;t be a requirement. <a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-rim-thomson-reuters-to-launch-150-million-mobile-app-fund-debuts-black\/\" title=\"Back in May 2008\">Back in May 2008<\/a>, the original $150 million BlackBerry Partners Fund was launched for the purpose of investing in mobile applications and services for BlackBerry and other mobile platforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/n5VcWpPu30bQTdu30t00E0Ll-WQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/n5VcWpPu30bQTdu30t00E0Ll-WQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/n5VcWpPu30bQTdu30t00E0Ll-WQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/n5VcWpPu30bQTdu30t00E0Ll-WQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=t_XFmVT-igk:42EpP1hkiwE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=t_XFmVT-igk:42EpP1hkiwE:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=t_XFmVT-igk:42EpP1hkiwE:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=t_XFmVT-igk:42EpP1hkiwE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=t_XFmVT-igk:42EpP1hkiwE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=t_XFmVT-igk:42EpP1hkiwE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=t_XFmVT-igk:42EpP1hkiwE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=t_XFmVT-igk:42EpP1hkiwE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/moconews\/~4\/t_XFmVT-igk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BlackBerry Partners Fund has expanded to China with a $100 million fund through a new joint venture with China Broadband Capital Partners, a four-year-old investment firm. 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