The corporate-backed VC firm has published the winners of the Blackberry Messenger (BBM) section of its annual Developer Challenge, honouring mobile applications that make use of the instant messaging service.

Blackberry Partners Fund (BPF), the Canada-based venture capital firm which numbers Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion, Thomson Reuters and the Royal Bank of Canada among its backers, announced the winners of the BBM section of its annual Blackberry Partners Fund Developer Challenge on Tuesday.

The winning applications (apps) were selected regionally on the criteria of ‘Most Addictive Social Apps’, using Blackberry’s BBM social platform. Prizes for the challenge are valued at $3m, which represents almost a 100% rise from last…