The Enterprises segment engages primarily in independent power generation and owns power generation facilities fueled by natural gas and biomass through its various subsidiaries and certain equity investments.
"We have found RIM to be meaningful in the consumer space and critical in specific enterprise segments".
The first two focus on consumer and enterprise segments, respectively, but the Digital Life arm is most representative of the change.
It chose Evernote, Storify and Zendesk as its first three integrations because of a number of requests for current customers across its Free, Pro and Enterprise segments.
And while the company anticipated sales dropping due to its retreat from the residential marketplace, Chairman and Chief Executive David Dorman David Dorman says revenue from enterprise segments may also come in low, thanks to continuing price pressure from competitors.
"We believe that our direct patterning technology is a key differentiator for enabling next generation AR/VR hardware for the consumer and enterprise segments because of the brightness and the pixel density afforded by the technology," the company notes.
Those accustomed to last cycle's stress on lower-performing, cost-reduced chip consumer applications and oversupply, hence no spending, in the high-margin enterprise segments continue to think today the best of all worlds, a new downturn in the offing.
Recent earnings reports and commentary out of Dell (tech recovery the in second half), Intel (increasing guidance), Hewlett Packard (demand stabilizing) and Cisco (accelerating orders) in addition to our previous themes on Mobile Internet bode well for two players in both the mobile and enterprise segments: Marvell Technology Group and Broadcom.
The fund says it will continue to invest in startups in its target regions at all stages — and in both the consumer and enterprise segments, including in fintech, SaaS, IT, adtech and marketplaces — albeit with an emphasis on early stage businesses.
BlackBerry said John Sims, who heads the company's enterprise segment, will add the BBM team to his organisation.
