Will RIM buy social data aggregator Gist to strengthen its hold on enterprise market? Research in Motion, the maker of the popular BlackBerry business smartphone, is in talks to pick up social data aggregator Gist to maintain its stranglehold on the enterprise smartphone market, according to a report by GigaOm.
Gist takes email contacts and scours the web for other types of information about them, using anything from news feeds to LinkedIn pages to build a better contact profile. The company claims it’s built profiles for around 100 million people now. Right now the service integrates with Gmail and Microsoft’s Outlook by adding a separate rail that includes additional information about a contact. Gmail Becomes an App Platform: Google Adds OAuth to IMAP.