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Inter-corporate Relationships
The Company has four material subsidiaries, of which all are wholly owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company.
GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUSINESS
A global leader in wireless innovation, the Company revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry
solution in 1999. Today, the Company aims to inspire the success of its millions of customers around the world by continuously
pushing the boundaries of mobile experiences.
Product and business developments that have influenced the general development of the Company’s business over the last three fiscal
years are as follows:
Fiscal 2013:
7
Name of Subsidiar
y
Jurisdiction of Incor
p
oration or Or
g
anization
Research In Motion Cor
p
oration
Delaware, U.S.A.
Research In Motion UK Limited
En
g
land and Wales
RIM Finance, LLC
Delaware, U.S.A.
Research In Motion Sin
g
a
p
ore Pte. Limited Sin
g
a
p
ore
• Introduced the re-designed, re-engineered, and re-invented BlackBerry platform that creates a new and unique mobile
computing experience. Two new LTE-enabled smartphones powered by the BlackBerry 10 operating system, the
BlackBerry Z10 (all-touch) and BlackBerry Q10 (touch with physical keyboard), were introduced on January 30, 2013 at
events held simultaneousl
y
in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Dubai, and Johannesbur
g
;
• Began to operate around the world under the iconic name BlackBerry, effective January 30, 2013. The Company will seek
shareholder approval to change the legal name of the Company to BlackBerry at the Company’s Annual and Special
Meetin
g
to be held in Jul
y
2013;
• Commenced trading under its new ticker symbols “BB” on The Toronto Stock Exchange and “BBRY” on the NASDAQ
Global Select Market, on Februar
y
4, 2013;
• Introduced new services and features for BlackBerry 10 smartphones, including: BlackBerry Hub, BlackBerry Flow,
BlackBerr
y
Messen
g
er (BBM) voice callin
g
and video chat, Time Shift, Stor
y
Maker and BlackBerr
y
Remember;
• Improved the BlackBerry World content distribution platform, now offering more than 100,000 BlackBerry 10
applications, and announced commitments to the BlackBerry 10 platform from many leading application providers
includin
g
Sk
yp
e, Amazon and Rovio;