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Friday, April 25th, 2008
IBM is the World’s 13th Most Profitable Company
Per Fortune Mag:
Fortune 500 rank: 15
2007 profit: $10.42 billion
Profit at the technology-services giant climbed 10% during 2007, driven by software sales.
A series of software company acquisitions made since 2003 added to IBM’s revenue.
Growth in Asia and emerging markets also drove 2007 results.
Nothing exciting here, but the recognition is always nice.
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Investors rush in to IBM
I thought it worth noting that on Thursday, IBM’s shares hit $123.72, their highest price since 2002. The night before, IBM said that its first-quarter profit jumped 26 percent raising its full year outlook accordingly. It was the second strong quarter in a row for IBM. Folks have upgraded IBM with analyst Peter […]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Is IBM Particularly Good at Acquisitions?
Cicso used to be held up as the best example of a company that was “good” at making acquisitions. There are a lot of things that can go wrong, particularly in the software & services fields where the people are the real asset being acquired. Picking the right target, making sure that the […]
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Who is Check Point? (Other than a very pricey acquisition target)
There has been talk in a few circles about IBM continuing to acquire security firms. I don’t know very much about this side of the business. I know that it’s a huge source of consulting revenue and an essential component in virtually every contract they bid. That said, I sure hope IBM […]
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Intro to IBM and Second Life
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
IBM-AMD Aint Gonna Happen
I think this article says it best:
“On paper it makes sense. AMD needs IBM’s expertise,” Cohen said. “That said, I can’t imagine IBM, having exited many parts of this (chip) business, putting in the investment that would be required to catch up with Intel.” Among other things, IBM doesn’t want to alienate Intel, a […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Sue Us? We’ll Show You
I’ve been pretty easy on IBM since the big layoff news last year. I just kind of took their behavior toward employees (regular layoffs to ‘thin the herd’) as typical of the way business is in the US now. IBM choosing to cut 8,000 employees’ pay by 15% in response to lawsuits seems […]
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
IBM PR Finally Wins One
“IBM-Fueled Rally Persists On Wall Street“. You gotta love headlines like that. Every financial news report from CNBC to the little news blurbs on radio stations are talking about Wall Street being up on great news from IBM. What great coverage and what a win by PR / marketing at big blue. […]
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Yoda as IBM’s CEO
CIO magazine has a fun story about if Yoda was CEO of IBM. His point, in a very round about way is that companies like IBM need to change the way they price and evaluate success to have success in the small / medium business space.
Not only are the IBMs of the world leaving money […]
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
IBM still makes the fastest supercomputers
I wrote last year about how Sun was poised to knock IBM off of it’s pedestal, but IBM once again retained the top couple spots. HP got embarrassed as well. This list completely doesn’t matter, but it’s a fun way to compare the top companies and IBM gets a lot of good press […]