12 Facts About Good Technology

1.

Good Technology, owned by BlackBerry Limited, is a mobile security provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States.

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Good Technology makes products for managing and securing mobile devices in a business environment.

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3.

Good Technology focuses on securing apps and data on mobile devices.

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4.

Good Technology in its current form is a continuation of two previous companies.

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5.

The original Good Technology had been founded in 2000; it was initially known as SpringThings, and sold an MP3 player for the Handspring Visor before shifting to email products for mobile professionals.

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6.

In 2009 Visto announced that it had renamed itself Good Technology effectively taking the name of the former independent company.

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7.

From 2009 to 2012, Good Technology grew through acquisitions, among them Intercasting Corporation and CloudSync, Copiun, and AppCentral .

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8.

Good Technology launched Good Dynamics, a set of mobile application development tools for enterprise and consumers, in October 2011.

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9.

In February 2014, Good Technology acquired BoxTone for its Mobile Device Management, Enterprise Mobility Management, Mobile Service Management and Mobile App Performance Monitoring Solutions.

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10.

The fire sale was controversial because Good Technology was valued at $1 billion and had filed for an IPO in May 2014, and in early 2015 the company's board had turned down an all-cash offer of $800 million.

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11.

The valuation of Good Technology has been suggested to be inflated, and though the company reported 2014 revenue of $211.

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12.

In 2017 all Good Technology products were rebranded under the BlackBerry Software brand.

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