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Gist and Tungle Founders Bail on BlackBerry

When BlackBerry finally gets around to the next round of layoffs it is reportedly plotting, it can dial back its head-count reduction, thanks to a pair of employees who have taken matters into their own hands.

Sources close to BlackBerry tell AllThingsD that T.A. McCann — the company’s VP of product strategy for BlackBerry Messenger and founder of Gist, the social contacts service it purchased in 2011 — left last month. Departing at approximately the same time: Marc Gingras, founder of Tungle.me, the social calendaring outfit BlackBerry acquired in April 2011, and a key player in the development of the company’s new BlackBerry 10 operating system. It’s not clear why McCann and Gingras left. One source said they’d “simply had it” with BlackBerry’s ongoing struggles.
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