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Article | 6/05/2013 BMC set to go private in $US6.9 billion deal
BMC has agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium headed by Bain Capital and Golden Capital, in a deal worth about $US6.9 billion.
Article | 3/05/2013 H-1B reform debate pits tech firms against veteran IT workers
Many U.S. tech companies are pushing hard this year for an increase in the number of high-skill immigrants allowed into the country, but many veteran ...
Article | 29/04/2013 IBM launches an appliance for the Internet of Things
Preparing its customers to join the emerging 'Internet of things', IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of m...
Article | 29/04/2013 Gartner: Worldwide CRM revenue grew 12.5 per cent in 2012
Global CRM (customer relationship management) revenue grew 12.5 percent last year to US$18 billion, a rate three times that of all enterprise software...
Article | 23/04/2013 Salesforce.com launches Social.com advertising platform
Salesforce.com is taking steps to combine its acquisitions in social media monitoring and social advertising with its core CRM (customer relationship ...
Article | 22/04/2013 IBM snatches UrbanCode for DevOps prowess
Sensing a need among its customers for faster software development, IBM has acquired UrbanCode, a provider of tools suited for the emerging practice o...
Article | 22/04/2013 IDC: SAP and Oracle winners as software growth slows
A growing interest in big data, analytics, and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according to research from I...
Article | 22/04/2013 Infor launches version 10x, plans IBM SmartCloud launch for its apps
Infor is hoping a new social collaboration tool, updated middleware and user interfaces, as well as options for cloud-based deployments, will help cem...
Article | 19/04/2013 Wall Street Beat: Tech bellwethers report mixed quarter
Some of the biggest names in IT including IBM, Microsoft, Google and Intel reported quarterly earnings this week, revealing a picture of the tech sect...
Article | 19/04/2013 IBM-Lenovo deal likely to focus on low-end, commodity servers, analyst says
Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such a...
Article | 18/04/2013 IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo, reports say
IBM is in "advanced discussions" with Lenovo over a possible deal for it to purchase IBM's x86 server business, according to two news reports.
Article | 18/04/2013 IBM's revenue deflated in 2013's first quarter
Unable to close a number of large mainframe and software deals by the end of the quarter, IBM has reported a 5 percent decline in revenue to US$23.4 b...
Article | 11/04/2013 IBM bets $1 billion on Flash storage
The hard drive will soon be dead, at least for most uses in the enterprise, IBM is betting. The company is undertaking a major strategic initiative --...
Article | 27/03/2013 Study: One-quarter of U.S. patents issued this year will be in mobile
The land rush for mobile patents is so feverish that about one-quarter of all patents issued in the U.S. this year will be mobile-related, according t...
Article | 21/03/2013 IBM moves toward post-silicon transistor
Exploring methods of computing without silicon, IBM has found a way to make transistors that could be fashioned into virtual circuitry that mimics how...