BlackBerry Bought Small Social-Media Company in May Scroon is Smartphone Maker's Only Known Purchase This Year By Will Connors Nov. 22, 2013 10:01 am ET Share ...

Scroon specializes in social media management and was brought on board to help further all of the BBM services that BlackBerry has to offer. The company also manages accounts for Facebook, Twitter and ...

Financial terms weren’t disclosed. Scroon is part of a strategy to profit from the BlackBerry Messenger instant-messaging service, said Alexandre Mars, the startup’s founder, in an e-mail.

Scroon’s Mars said he hadn’t disclosed the purchase by BlackBerry before because of the “delicate media buzz” around the company, which introduced a new line of phones this year in an ...

BlackBerry acquired a small French social media startup known as Scroon in May as part of its strategy to improve its BBM messenger service, the company confirmed Friday. The company has said that ...