{"id":36778,"date":"2013-03-11T14:38:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=36778"},"modified":"2013-03-11T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T19:00:24","slug":"blackberry-finally-gets-some-love-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/03\/11\/blackberry-finally-gets-some-love-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Finally Gets Some Love\u2026 in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/WallStreetDaily.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WallStreetDaily.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>BlackBerry<\/b> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q=bbry&amp;ei=s_g9Udj3FJLh0wGTPw\">RIMM<\/a>) might be struggling to gain market share in the United States, but that\u2019s not the case in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Of the four million smartphones owned in the country, two million (HALF!) are BlackBerrys.<\/p>\n<p>Why does the company have such a large presence there? Its free text messaging service, BlackBerry Messenger, has a lot to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Bose, the company\u2019s managing director in the region, says, \u201cWe think BlackBerry Messenger is very strong, has a very strong community, has a very strong connectedness that Nigerian society enjoys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, for many of Nigeria\u2019s two million users, BlackBerry Messenger is key. As one resident in Lagos says, \u201cYou can reach your families; you can reach your friends through pinging \u2013 without spending much money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If only BlackBerry Messenger had such cachet globally.<\/p>\n<p>But with free text messaging services like iMessage for the iPhone and Kik Messenger (which works for Android, iOS, Windows phones <i>and <\/i>BlackBerry), the company needs to figure out a new way to generate market share.<\/p>\n<p>Article By <a href=\"http:\/\/WallStreetDaily.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WallStreetDaily.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallstreetdaily.com\/2013\/03\/11\/video-blackberry-nigeria-z10\/\" target=\"_blank\">BlackBerry Finally Gets Some Love\u2026 in Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By WallStreetDaily.com BlackBerry (RIMM) might be struggling to gain market share in the United States, but that\u2019s not the case in Nigeria. Of the four million smartphones owned in the country, two million (HALF!) are BlackBerrys. Why does the company have such a large presence there? Its free text messaging service, BlackBerry Messenger, has a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/03\/11\/blackberry-finally-gets-some-love-in-nigeria\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BlackBerry Finally Gets Some Love\u2026 in Nigeria&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}