BlackBerry Ltd. agreed to sell a research and development facility in Germany to an arm of Volkswagen AG that makes automobile infotainment systems for an undisclosed amount, the Canadian smartphone maker confirmed Thursday.

As part of the deal, 200 employees at the BlackBerry Product Development Center in Bochum, Germany will join Volkswagen Infotainment GmbH and the German firm will assume the research center's office leases, a BlackBerry spokesman confirmed in an e-mailed statement.

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