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| Symbol | Name | Time | Trade | Change | % Chg | Volume | P/E Ratio | EPS | Mkt Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM | IBM | 21:00 GMT | 205.72 | -0.44 | -0.21% | 3295737 | 14.22 | 14.501 | 228.1B |
Latest IBM news
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Watson starts diagnosing patients
IBM is packing off its Watson software to the health industry where it is going to be telling people what is wrong with them. -
IBM upgrades COBOL server
IBM has been tinkering under the bonnet of its ancient COBOL server platform and updated the mainframe platform so it can host cloud based applications and services. -
Oracle’s Ellison earned $264,109 a day
Meg Whitman, at HP, earned a respectable $15.1 million, but Rupert Murdoch at News Corp, trousered $22 million. Virginia Rometty, at IBM, only managed to make $14.7 million. -
IBM lost contract for bidding too low
IBM lost a lucrative government contract because it made a bid for the work which was a bit on the Finn side. -
IBM kills off Lotus 1-2-3
IBM has decided to finally lay to rest the second killer app of the PC - the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. -
Cisco results were better than expected
Chambers said revenue from the US federal government was down three percent in the quarter due to spending cutbacks, but this was offset by increased state and local government spending which boosted overall US public sector revenue by five percent. It is odd that Juniper and IBM didn't notice this. -
Bitcoin network faster than 500 supercomputers
By comparison, IBM’s Sequoia churns out 16.3 petaFLOPS, which makes it look like a featherweight compared to the Bitcoin network. Fujitsu’s K computer is capable of 10.5 petaFLOPS. -
IBM creates film using precisely placed atoms
Scientists from IBM have created the world’s smallest film, made with thousands of atoms. -
Your genetic make up to be stored, without consent, for profit
This all despite there never having been a public consultation on the plan, or an assessment of costs and benefits - while there is significant commercial interest in further opening up healthcare to the markets, or insurers. -
SAP stumbles in Asia
FinancialSAP faces competition in internet-based software from IBM and Oracle and nimbler rivals like Salesforce.com and Workday. It is also having to deal with an industry wide slump -
US beefs up cyber laws
The law has the backing of large tech companies such as Intel, Oracle and IBM. But the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and an association of smaller tech companies and grass-roots activists known as Fight for the Future, have already launched a digital campa -
IBM accused of dodgy deal
When the project went spectacularly wrong, with thousands not paid properly, a few people started wondering how IBM got the job in the first place. Taxpayers were left with a $1.2 billion bill. -
Gates and Allen recreate Microsoft history snap
The snap was taken to illustrate the risk of the young geek in an industry which had been dominated by the mainframe and the suited guy from IBM. -
Roadrunner finally dispatched
In 2008, Roadrunner was first to break the elusive petaflop barrier by processing just over a quadrillion mathematical calculations per second. But that was less interesting than the fact that IBM built Roadrunner from commercially available parts. -
Oracle sparks up its Sparc server chips
Database giant Oracle has upgraded its high end server systems, putting pressure on rivals such as IBM. -
Dell buyout turns into the Scottish play
IBM unsuccessfully sued Johnson when he departed in 2009, alleging he violated a non-compete agreement. -
Taiwan chip makers respond to Samsung threat
Competition in the foundry business is fiercer than ever before, with semiconductor giant Intel reportedly touting for business too. Other players in the field include Abu Dhabi firm GlobalFoundries (GloFo), UMC, IBM Microelectronics, and Chinese foundry SMIC. -
Crunch time for Michael Dell
There has been some speculation as to where Dell will go next: PC sales in general are floundering but its services and related enterprise businesses are doing rather well.
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