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First it’s the first ever BlackBerry Store, now it’s the U.S. headquarters. Research In Motion announced that they will set up shop in Irving, Texas, for their home base in the States. This is good news for the area, as it is projected that 1,000 jobs will be created. Not only that, but it could create business for other local telecommunications companies, according to Dallas-area economic and technical experts.

RIM co-chief Jim Balsillie on why they chose the Irving site:

“Access to skilled people,” he said, was the main reason RIM chose Irving, although half a dozen other cities were considered over the last several months.

It makes enough sense. The area already hosts other hardware and software companies, such as Texas Instruments, Ericsson, and Nokia.

Donald Hicks, professor of political economy at the U of Texas at Dallas, weights in on how this will help businesses other than RIM:

RIM should fit right in, he said, and it is likely to spur a secondary market of entrepreneurs and start-up companies looking to make software or components for BlackBerry devices and other RIM platforms.

That, in turn, will spur investment from the cadre of local venture capital firms always hungry to find and fund the next big thing.

Those are some lofty aspirations. Of course, we’d love to see them fulfilled.

[The Dallas Morning News]

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