BlackBerry and Wunderlist could be Microsoft's next acquisitions

Apparently in Microsoft getting ready to go shoppingfor the technological category. In addition to the well-known intentions to acquire a minority stake in HERE Maps, there are now attempts to buy none other than BlackBerry and 6Wunderkinder, the company that created the service Wunderlist.

Obviously the most important of these transactions, should they come to fruition, would be the purchase of BlackBerry Even so, sources reporting on Microsoft's interest in buying said company (Digitimes and Betaville) make it clear that the Redmond talks are still in very early phases

According to these sources, Microsoft has hired investment specialists from Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank to begin to evaluate the purchase, but based on the results of such evaluation there is a significant probability that the transaction will never materialize

Although Microsoft is interested in buying BlackBerry, the transaction will likely never come to fruition.

In addition, the improvement in BlackBerry's financial results has caused other offers to buy the company to appear, coming from manufacturers such as Lenovo, Huawei, and XiaomiThe interest of these other companies could raise the final sale price and eventually cause Microsoft to give up its attempts to control it.

And how can the purchase of BlackBerry benefit Microsoft? First is the huge portfolio of patents owned by Canadians.Redmond's position in terms of mobile solutions for companies would also benefit, by being able to count on the infrastructure of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Finally, devices could be launched on the market BlackBerry with Windows 10 Mobile and Mobile Enterprise, making it easier for this new operating system to gain market share.

Wunderlist's possible purchase: a Microsoft focused on productivity

Although the purchase of BlackBerry seems unlikely (based on what the same sources report), the acquisition of Wunderlistis much more plausible.

According to the German publication Manager Magazin, the talks between Microsoft and 6Wunderkinder (the company that owns Wunderlist) already are well advanced, and also this purchase would make a lot of sense within Microsoft's new vision focused on productivity

Let's remember that a few months ago Redmond already bought a mail application (Acompli), and a calendar application (Sunrise), disbursing more than 300 million dollars in total , and using both tools to strengthen Outlook as a cross-platform productivity solution. In this context, the next logical step would be to acquire a successful task management application, such as Wunderlist.

In any case, neither Microsoft nor 6Wunderkinder have officially referred to the matter, so we will have to stay tuned as the rumors evolve .

Via | Neowin, Windows Central