Blackberry closes offices in Sweden

Since Blackberry’s acquisition of Malmö-based The Astonishing Tribe in 2010, the Swedish offices have been a creative hub for the Canadian mobile phone makers design and development of user interfaces. Rapidus can today report that both the remaining Swedish offices are to be closed down and all 150 Swedish employees let go. Hans Björkqvist, regional manager for the Swedish trade union “Unionen” confirms that Blackberry today handed over a request for negotiations concerning the closing of the r…