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Blackberry: Mobile World Congress 2014: BlackBerry Forges Ahead with Introduction of New Products and Services

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The BlackBerry executive team is at Mobile  World Congress , this week, underscoring their strategy with a renewed focus on core strengths in security, productivity, communications and collaboration. There’s a lot to cover, including newly announced enterprise solutions, partnerships, and smartphone models that enable enterprises and individuals to maximize their productivity, communication and collaboration. In an overview, John Chen,  Executive Chairman  and CEO at BlackBerry had this to say: “We have engineered a  new strategy  to stabilize the company and restore our customers’ confidence in BlackBerry. The announcements made during Mobile World Congress demonstrate that BlackBerry is looking to the future and bringing solutions to market that matter most to our customers. These secure solutions emphasize our strengths in enterprise mobility, while empowering end users to become more productive with technologies that drive communications and collaboration.”

Life at Microsoft

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Be a Big Shot at work & at play Both Microsoft and National Geographic benefit from these men’s creativity Written by: By Michelle Feder Outside of work, Nitish Kumar Meena (a UX Designer in  Visual Studio ), and Noah Dyvadheenam, (a  Software Development Engineer  in Test on the Windows team), are avid photographers. Last year, they became acquainted at a  special event , an art exhibition at Microsoft India. What made this art show particularly special? At this debut “Arty Party,” the first of its kind, all the art showcased was made  by   Microsoft employees . Noah and Nitish showed their photos at the event. Both passionate  about photography , they became friends. They began going on photo-walks, where they shared their interest and learned from each other. On their first outing, Noah took Nitish to do some street photography. “While I was busy clicking a watch repairman,” Noah says, “Nitish took a picture of the two subjects engrossed in the

Life at Microsoft

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Written by: Mohamed Mansour,  Software Development Engineer , Microsoft Silicon Valley Mohamed Mansour is a Software Engineer at Bing, focusing on user data and personalization. Here’s what Mohamed loves about his role and what keeps him at  Microsoft : The team. When finding a job, one of the most important things is the team, and the amount of freedom you will be given. When I heard we had an  innovation team  here, I was intrigued what that meant. Everyone could be part of it and work with other bright coworkers to create something impactful. That kind of culture, balance between hacking and producing, is what I love. Before Microsoft, I was doing a lot of hacks around Social Data by creating extensions to improve  user experience  that many people loved. But they all went down because of unsupported APIs, which was frustrating because I wanted to create new and unique experiences, which I deeply believe is the correct way. Over two million people downloaded