RIM's Employee Flight: Morning Tech Bytes

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- At least five members of Research In Motion's enterprise saleforce team have jumped shipped to Apple in the past year, according to an informal study by a Wall Street Journal staffer. The news comes as RIM continues to shed market share to the iPhone maker and a few months ahead of RIM's effort to dive into the tablet market. Its PlayBook will reportedly debut in March.

Shares of RIM were 39 cents lower in pre-market trading at $59.10.

Apple has bought the grounds of Hewlett-Packard's former headquarters, reported The Mercury News. The 98-acre parcel of land, which real estate agents estimate to hold a price tag of about $300 million, is adjacent to 50 acres of land that Apple bought four years ago.

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