BlackBerry completes acquisition of AtHoc

BlackBerry has announced its acquisition of AtHoc, a California-based crisis communications firm, is now complete.

The Waterloo-based company announced back in July that it had inked a deal to acquire AtHoc and make the company part of its enterprise division.

• BlackBerry to buy crisis communications software company AtHoc

AtHoc helps organizations and people to connect and share information in times of crisis.

Its clients include the U.S. Departmentof Defence and Department ofHomeland Security as well as public and private enterprises.

Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

News of the acquisition comes ahead second quarter earnings report from BlackBerry, which is expected to be released before North American markets open on Friday.