RIM has completed its acquisition of Gist, a social CRM star-up company based in Seattle. RIM made the announcement on their blog, Inside BlackBerry.

"Today we are pleased to announce that Gist has joined Research In Motion® (RIM®). We’re excited that the Gist team is joining RIM and bringing their expertise in providing customers with a contextualized, streamlined, and consolidated view of information about their contacts to the BlackBerry platform.

Gist helps users to automatically create and maintain a rich contact profile for everyone in their network."