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1. IBM Profits Beat Expectations

   [ News ] Topic: IBM | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 01/20/2010

   IBM's earnings for the fourth quarter beat expectations , but its stock price actually fell 2 percent on the news, according to MarketWatch . Big Blue reported $4.8 million in net income , or $3.59 a share, an increase of 9 percent from $4.4 billion, or $3.27 a share a year ago. Revenue...

2. IBM Mum on Iowa Hiring

   [ News ] Topic: IBM | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 01/19/2010

   IBM takes heat in an article on the Dubuque (Iowa) Telegraph Herald's Web site that says Big Blue promised to create 1,300 jobs at its global service center there in return for $52 million in tax breaks and other incentives from the state. It seems that a year later, IBM isn't releasing any...

3. IBM Awarded Most Patents in 2009

   [ News ] Topic: IBM | Author: KaraReeder | Date Published: 01/12/2010

   According to IFI Patent Intelligence, IBM took the top spot in the number of patents awarded in 2009. Bloomberg reports that IBM even broke its own record by receiving 4,914 patents . That's 36 percent more U.S. patents than the next closest company, Samsung Electronics. This is the 17th...

4. IBM to Set up Financing Business in China

   [ News ] Topic: IBM | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 01/11/2010

   IBM is setting up an accounts-receivable lending business in China with AMD as its first client, reports Reuters . It will offer loans to bridge the lag between invoice and payment in the Tianjin Binhai New Area, an economic development region where companies such as Toyota and Motorola have...

5. IBM Enlists Mickey Mouse for Smarter Planet

   [ Blog ] Topic: IBM | Author: MikeVizard | Date Published: 01/29/2010

   IBM has recruited Walt Disney World to help educate people about what it means to live on a Smarter Planet . Leveraging a long-standing relationship, IBM will open a Smarter Planet exhibit at the Epcot Center at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. The exhibit will be centered on an...

6. IBM Migration Factory Aims to Close Down Sun, HP

   [ Blog ] Topic: IBM | Author: MikeVizard | Date Published: 01/28/2010

   Now that the Oracle acquisition of Sun is a done deal, IBM is trying to increase the pressure on Oracle, and by extension HP, with a new set of services and software aimed at automating much of the process of migrating application workloads from Sun and HP servers over to IBM servers. Called...

7. IBM CEO Provides Accounting of Smarter Planet

   [ Blog ] Topic: IBM | Author: MikeVizard | Date Published: 01/13/2010

   In a speech at the Chatham House in London today to promote the concept of IBM’s Smarter Planet , IBM CEO Sam Palmisano said substantial progress has been made on multiple fronts that has resulted in massive amounts of savings and thousands of new business opportunities. The benefits of...

8. IBM Acquires RedPill

   [ News ] Topic: IBM | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 09/22/2009

   IBM has acquired Singapore-based customer-analytics firm RedPill for an undisclosed amount, reports Computerworld. RedPill's technology, designed to pull together marketing data stored in different systems to identify and reach out to key customer segments, is expected to enhance IBM's...

9. The New Old IBM

   [ Blog ] Topic: IBM | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 12/10/2009

   I spent much of this week as the guest of IBM at Watson Research. As an ex-IBM employee, it brought back memories of the way IBM was and allowed me to think about what IBM was becoming. As I sat through the presentations and compared my perception of IBM now with my perception of IBM when I worked...

10. IBM Power7 and Apple's ARM A4: The Advantages of Having Your Own Processor

    [ Blog ] Topic: IBM | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 02/08/2010

    A lot of things change in a decade. At the end of the '90s, it seemed clear that Intel's Itanium was going to dominate the UNIX world and that the proprietary processors would give way to the inevitable. Itanium slipped badly and, while most of the other custom processors went by the wayside,...

11. IBM's Hiring in Vermont

    [ News ] Topic: IBM | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 09/16/2009

    as it increasingly moves jobs from the United States to less-expensive locations, but amid all the talk of job cuts in the economic downturn, Big Blue is hiring at its plant in Essex Junction, Vt. The company is said to be filling 240 positions based on unexpected demand for the components...

12. IBM Offers Financing Lures

    [ News ] Topic: IBM | Author: SusanHall | Date Published: 10/19/2009

    IBM is expanding its financing lures for businesses to help stimulate spending through the end of the year, reports Channel Web. The "Smart Financing Toolkit" announced Monday allows buyers to defer payments for 90 days on eligible hardware, software and services, or zero-percent financing....