news.cnet.com - 1/21/2009
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Updated at 1:56 p.m. PST, with additional earnings information and after-hours trading performance.
IBM reported Tuesday a 12 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings, coming in stronger than analysts' expectations.
Big Blue generated net income of $4.4 billion, or $3.28 a ...
news.cnet.com - 1/20/2009
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Within the next few
months, Cisco Systems, the largest maker of networking equipment,...
plans to release a product that threatens to shake up the technology industry and put the company on a collision course with traditional partners ...
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Cisco plans big push into server market - CNET News
tgdaily.com - 1/27/2009
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tgdaily.com —
$650M will not support 6,500 employees at $100K/yr
Not that I agree it's right of IBM to...
pay their shareholders and lay off so may people, but your math is a bit off because there are other factors. With health care, facility maintenance/bills, and ...
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IBM to pay shareholders cash dividend after lay offs
go.theregister.com - 1/28/2009
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Chips are down, and servers too IBM's x64
server business took it on the chin pretty hard...
in Q4, and today, it formally price cuts for companies who buy direct from Big Blue. The price cuts are probably not an indication of the discounting levels ...
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IBM whittles x64 iron prices
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The Tech Report: News —
Wednesday Shortbread by Ronald Hanaki 5:26 AM on January 21, 2009 Wednesday Bloomberg reports Apple's disclosures about Jobs's health said to face SEC review and Intel raises possibility of loss in first quarter (thanks UberGerbil) C|Net reports IBM earnings beat analyst expectations Sony to announce restructuring details soon: FT Opera CTO: Here's how to level the browser playing field Ars Technica on AMD's new " Fusion " reboot: Can diversity save Moore's Law? and don't delay digital TV transition DigiTimes ...
IBM earnings beat analyst expectations
APH Networks —
... Big Blue generated net income of $4.4 billion, or $3.28 a share, for the quarter, up 12 percent over the same period a year ago.
Wall Street had expected Big Blue to post earnings of $3.03 a share for the three-month period.
The technology bellwether also reported that it is not only on track to achieve its previously stated goal of generating an annual profit of $10 to $11 a share in 2010, but that it's ahead of the pace it set out to get there.
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