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IBM stories: 57 news summaries

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MARKETS

Stocks Rise at Open as Jobless Claims Fall

But volatility ensures we'll need to update this in no time

Oct 9, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks saw a strong open this morning, with the Dow rising 135 points after a positive quarterly report from IBM and a rally in European stocks, the Wall Street Journal reports. But investors were also mulling a worse-than-expected jobs report. Though new jobless claims fell by 20,000 last... More »

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stock market • Dow Jones • IBM • jobless claims • short selling

IBM Forecast Rallies Asian, European Markets

Big Blue's outlook erases some gloom

Oct 9, 08 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - After five straight trading days of losses, investors may have regained a touch of confidence as markets in Asia and Europe bounced back from their beatings today, reports Bloomberg. The rebound, fueled in part by IBM’s reaffirmation of its profit forecast, comes after the worst five-day selloff since 1987.... More »

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stock market • IBM • Asian stocks • European stocks • Dexia

ANALYSIS

 PC to Mac: Who's Square Now? 

Microsoft's $300M ad campaign fights 'snooty' Apple

Oct 1, 08 4:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Apple's ads have long painted Microsoft users as square, but the PC has effectively stood up to the cool kids in the company's $300 million campaign, writes Farhad Manhoo in Slate. "Even if they are a little saccharine, the core message of Microsoft's ads—that Apple is snooty—should... More »

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Microsoft • Bill Gates • IBM • Microsoft Windows • advertisements • Apple Corps • Justin Long

Tech Firms Buoyed
by Demand Abroad

International demand keeps tech afloat even as economy sinks

Jul 18, 08 8:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - The tech sector keeps rolling even as the overall economy continues to flail, the Wall Street Journal reports. Four of tech’s giants, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Nokia, posted quarterly results yesterday, riding high on developed nations’ need for cost-saving technologies and emerging economies’ demand for infrastructure upgrades as... More »

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technology • Google • stock market • Microsoft • NASDAQ • Intel • IBM • Nokia • emerging markets • AMD

 10 Computers That
 Changed Everything 

Before the iMac, there were mega machines

Jul 16, 08 8:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Convenience is a given when it comes to today's PCs, but the machine you're reading this on has come a long way. Major transformations date as far back as the early 19th century. Live Science gives the back-story on 10 revolutionary computers.
  1. The Difference Engine, 1822: Designed by Charles
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technology • Intel • IBM • computer chip • desktop computers • computer • personal computers • Xerox PARC

HP Exec Busted for Passing
IBM Secrets

Exec shared rival's confidential info with new HP bosses

Jul 2, 08 6:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - A former Hewlett-Packard vice president faces federal charges for sharing trade secrets from IBM, the Wall Street Journal reports. The exec requested confidential pricing information while he was working for IBM. Two months later, he got a job at HP and emailed the info to an HP executive, according to... More »

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email • espionage • IBM • corporate governance • federal indictment • corporate crime • Hewlett-Packard

 Quest on for Chocolate Genome 

Mars aims to unlock genetic code to develop hardier cacao trees

Jun 26, 08 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Candy giant Mars is investing $10 million in a 5-year research project to unlock the secrets of chocolate's genetic code—the cocoa genome—as the first stage in developing cacao trees that can produce more, survive droughts, and combat disease. Mars intends to make the results public to stop key... More »

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drought • Mars • West Africa • Brazil • IBM • genome • chocolate • Department of Agriculture • cacao • cocoa • Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture

Intel Moves into Clean Tech With Solar Cell Spinoff

SpectraWatt joins IBM, HP entries, part of a larger trend in IT industry

Jun 17, 08 4:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Intel made a move into clean technology yesterday, creating a spinoff that will manufacture solar cells and pumping $50 million into it. SpectraWatt’s focus will be on improving solar-cell efficiency and cutting costs per watt, its CEO told CNet. IT companies are increasingly getting into the solar industry. Both... More »

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Intel • IBM • solar energy • manufacturer • solar cells • clean technology • SpectraWatt • Hewlett-Packard

Tech Firms to Fix Monster They Created

Email, IMs keep employees available and distracted

Jun 14, 08 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google, Microsoft, Intel, and IBM are partnering are on a new initiative to help workers distracted by emails and instant messages improve their productivity, the New York Times reports. The Information Overload Research Group, a nonprofit launching next month, will devise cultural and technological solutions to reduce the digital... More »

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Google • Microsoft • work • email • Intel • IBM • office • instant messaging • productivity

PlayStation Chip Lifts Military Computer to Record Speeds

Los Alamos, IBM team pass petaflop level

Jun 9, 08 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - IBM and Los Alamos Laboratory scientists used an amalgam of computer chips, including some designed for use in the PlayStation 3, to blow through one of the computing world’s most pursued milestones—processing more than one thousand trillion calculations per second, reports the New York Times. The petaflop... More »

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IBM • parallel computing • Los Alamos • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory • petaflop

HP, Looking for Edge, Close to Buying EDS for $12-13B

Computing giant seeks to expand services division, gain advantage over IBM

May 12, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hewlett-Packard is near a deal to buy Electronic Data Systems for $12-13 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports, an acquisition that would make it more competitive in the services sector with rival IBM. Confirmation was expected soon (HP admitted “advanced discussions” were underway), even as the tech consulting and... More »

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mergers and acquisitions • IBM • Electronic Data Systems • Hewlett-Packard

PRODUCT REVIEW

Subnotebooks Don't Quite Measure Up

Lenovo, Asus debut lightweights that are close, but not there

May 8, 08 3:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hamstrung by poor battery life, and burdened with an overly weighty Vista operating system that makes starting up a drag, a pair of new subnotebook computers offer a glimpse of what could be—but isn’t quite, writes Wall Street Journal tech guru Walt Mossberg. Lenovo’s IdeaPad—a junior... More »

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IBM • Lenovo • laptop • computer • MacBook Air • Asus • subnotebooks

 IBM Raises Dividend 25% 

Firm paying out $2.5B, expecting $12B in stock buybacks

Apr 29, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - IBM raised its quarterly dividend for the thirteenth consecutive year today after posting strong Q1 earnings two weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. The firm expects to pay $2.5 billion to shareholders this year after raising its dividend 25%, from 40 to 50 cents. IBM also expects to... More »

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investors • IBM • shareholders • information technology • computer • stock buyback • first quarter earnings • dividend

MARKETS

 Stocks Flat After Day in Red 

Mixed data leads to seesaw after Wednesday's rally

Apr 17, 08 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Dow ticked up 1.22 points to close at 12,620.49 today, after a flood of mixed earning reports mostly kept stocks down during the session. One analyst was impressed the market didn’t dip, saying it “seems to be holding up relatively well, especially after yesterday’... More »

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Bank of America • Dow Jones • IBM • Pfizer • Merrill Lynch • Nasdaq • S&P 500

 IBM First Quarter Profits 
 Jump 26% 

US revenue up 6% despite slowdown

Apr 17, 08 4:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bellwether IBM posted a 26% spike in profits for the first quarter, proving that some tech companies are escaping the fallout from the economic downturn. The gains include a 6% increase in American revenue to $9.9 billion and are attributed to corporate customers buying products and services designed to... More »

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IBM • revenue • quarterly profits • economy • Mark Loughridge • Intel Corp

IBM Creates a Cooler Supercomputer

Chilled water reduces energy needs for a more powerful machine

Apr 8, 08 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - IBM has found a way to squeeze five times the performance out of a supercomputer at just 40% of the power. The newest version of the Power 575 draws chilled water into the computer and runs it through copper plates above processors to cool them, before expelling the heated water,... More »

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IBM • energy saving • supercomputer • Power 575 • water-cooled processors

 Feds Lift Ban on IBM Contracts  

IBM withdraws protest of lost EPA contract

Apr 4, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The government Thursday lifted a week-old ban that prevented IBM from competing for new federal contracts. In exchange, IBM agreed to withdraw its protest of an $84 million contract with the EPA it lost last year, and to refund any attorney fees and costs the Government Accountability Office paid to... More »

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contracts • IBM • federal investigation • Environmental Protection Agency • computer • government contracts • insider information

IBM Banned from Gov't Contracts

Big Blue probed over alleged insider info that led to fat EPA deals

Apr 1, 08 8:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - A US Attorney in Virginia has temporarily barred IBM from pursuing new government contracts while it investigates three 2006 IBM contracts with the EPA, MarketWatch reports. "The basic issue is whether certain information concerning a contract should have been provided to IBM employees by an EPA employee," said... More »

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IBM • federal investigation • Environmental Protection Agency • US Attorney's Office • government contracts • insider information

Earnings report

Oracle Stock Dives 8%
on Flagging Q3 Revenue

Despite a 30% jump in profits, investors worry the software maker is vulnerable

Mar 27, 08 7:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Oracle missed its third-quarter revenue projections yesterday and investor reaction was swift and dramatic: shares of the software maker dropped 8% in after-hours trading, reports the Wall Street Journal. This despite the fact that Oracle’s profits rose 30% to $1.34 billion, 26 cents per share, from $1.03... More »

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Goldman Sachs • IBM • Oracle • corporate earnings • Cisco • BEA Systems

Sun Banks on Lasers
to Make Next Speed Leap

Using light, not wires, to connect chips could make computers 1,000 times faster

Mar 24, 08 1:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sun Microsystems is moving toward connecting computer chips using lasers instead of wires, a move that could make computers 1,000 times faster. The company snagged a $44 million Pentagon contract to continue work that could also mean smaller, more energy-efficient machines. It won’t be easy, though: A Sun... More »

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Pentagon • Stanford • Intel • MIT • IBM • Sun Microsystems • computer chip • computer • University of California at San Diego • lasers • silicon photonics • NEC Corporation • Luxtera • Kotura • supercomputer • Hewlett-Packard

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