While Research In Motion is cutting about a third of its staff, the company is also psyched to be hiring a whole new crop of developers and developer-outreach folks. During this campaign season, I think it's safe to crown RIM's human resources department as King flip-flopper.
The few dozen positions posted today on the BlackBerry developer blog won't do much to replace the 5,000 jobs the struggling Canadian smartphone maker recently announced it would be shedding, but clearly RIM is attempting to beef up its pitch to developers ahead of the release of BlackBerry 10, while slimming down virtually everywhere else.
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