BlackBerry Messenger, BBM, which was previously thought to be BlackBerry’s life preserver may now be being chopped off and sold as a separate company. This isn’t surprising since BlackBerry has been in a slow death-spiral for the past couple of years. While bringing BlackBerry Messenger to other platforms like Android, Windows Phone and the iPhone might be great for consumers, it happening this late in the game is another sign of BlackBerry’s imminent demise. However, offering BBM for sale may only be to increase the perceived value of Blackberry as a whole before a sale of the entire company. For more on this story, here is Landon Robinson’s story from BestTechie.com.

Blackberry May Be Separating Messenger from Company Ahead of Potential Sale (via http://www.besttechie.com/)

Smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry may be working on a way to ?spinoff? its built-in messaging service, simply called BlackBerry Messenger, and turn it into its own ?valuable asset? before the company’s rumored potential sale occurs. This report comes out of The Wall Street Journal who is sourcing anonymous ?people familiar with the matter.?…