Technology Magazine December 2017 | Page 99

ASIA

Matthew Talbot CEO , BBM

Matthew Talbot is chief executive officer of BBM . He brings to his role more than 20 years of technology industry leadership , international management , and extensive sales and marketing expertise in mobility and cloud technologies , financial services , telecommunications , and consumer content in both start-up and public company environments .
BBM is one of the largest and the world ’ s first mobile messaging app . Moving beyond Blackberry devices with over 100 million installs on Android , iOS , and Windows , BBM has evolved from a pure messaging application for communication ( text and video ) to a social ecosystem unifying Chat , Social , Commerce , Services and Ads .
On 27 June 2016 , Creative Media Works , a division of PT Elang Mahkota Teknologi Tbk . ( Emtek , IDX : EMTK ) - Indonesia ’ s largest media , content and technology business - announced a strategic alliance with BlackBerry to accelerate BBM ’ s research and development in offering new and exciting features , services and content to the global consumer market .
Creative Media Works now operates under the BBM banner as a stand-alone consumer focused business with offices in Waterloo , Mississauga , Ottawa , Singapore , Jakarta , UAE and South Africa .
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