7 years ago075(Reuters) - IBM Corp (IBM.N) on Tuesday reported a lower-than-expected quarterly revenue, as growth in its higher-margin businesses that include cloud and artificial intelligence services failed to make up for declines across legacy business segments.
IBM's shares fell 3 percent to $149.15 in after-market trading.
Armonk, New...
7 years ago078Tech giant IBM is building a blockchain-based platform for seven big European banks, including HSBC and Deutsche Bank, that is aimed at simplifying trade finance transactions for small- and medium-sized companies.
Trade finance was identified by a survey of banks carried out by IBM and the Economist Intelligence Unit last year as one...
7 years ago067Julie Xiang has joined Merlin International, a leading cybersecurity and IT solutions provider, as the company's Vice President of Sales.
Xiang has held leadership positions at IBM, Oracle, and Datatel Inc. While at IBM, she received significant achievement recognition including four years as an IBM Hundred Percent Club Awardee,...
7 years ago078Major U.S. technology company chief executives sat down with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and other top Trump administration officials on Monday before meeting with the president on cutting government waste and improving information technology services.
Other officials meeting in 10 small group sessions with the executives...
7 years ago0111Partners Awarded for Extraordinary Performance and Notable Achievements
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the company has been honored as the winner of the VMware 2016 Global System's Outsourcer Partner Innovation Award. IBM was recognized at VMware Partner Leadership Summit 2017, held in Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif.
"VMware is...
7 years ago0106IBM Recognized for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute for IBM Watson Marketing
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that for the seventh consecutive year, Gartner, Inc. has named IBM as a leader in the April 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Campaign Management.
IBM offers holistic visualizations of complex...
7 years ago071IBM today announced that Fast Company has named IBM's Harriet Green one of its 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2017. The annual list honors an influential and diverse group of leading thinkers from a vast range of global industries, from tech and design to entertainment, media, government and nonprofit, health care, and...
8 years ago058Banks and other financial institutions are adopting blockchain technology "dramatically faster" than initially expected, with 15 percent of top global banks intending to roll out full-scale, commercial blockchain products in 2017, IBM said on Wednesday.
The technology company said 65 percent of banks expected to have blockchain...
8 years ago050Big data is in many ways still a wild frontier, requiring wily smarts and road-tested persistence on the part of those hoping to find insight in all the petabytes. On Tuesday, IBM announced a new platform it hopes will make things easier.
Dubbed Project DataWorks, the new cloud-based platform is the first to integrate all types of...
8 years ago044IBM fancies itself a cognitive computing enabler. So it’s ditching most of the vestiges from its legacy computer business and, for better or for worse, going all in.
The 105-year-old Armonk, N.Y., company made news two weeks ago when it announced it would supply the brains behind a self-driving bus project planned for Washington...
8 years ago048Eight universities have begun a year-long initiative to train IBM Watson for work in cybersecurity. Will the Jeopardy champ soon police the internet?
On Tuesday, IBM announced that Watson, its cognitive computing system (and former Jeopardy champion), will be spending the next year training for a new job—fighting...
8 years ago044Following a “very sad day” that culminated in “brutal” redundancies, former IBM workers have taken to creating a Facebook group called 'Watching IBM' to express their consternation.
The page was set up by former employee Lee Conrad, who used to run the Alliance@IBM unionisation attempt. The exact quantity of the workforce that...
8 years ago050While the world gets all excited about new applications and the public cloud, enterprises have more pressing concerns.
Interesting news from IBM InterConnect today (Disclusure: IBM contributed to my travel and expenses to attend the event). Big blue is teaming up with VMware in order to give enterprises that use VMware (which, it has...