John Paczkowski

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Big Blue Bags BigFix

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IBM (IBM) has added another dancer to its recent conga line of acquisitions: Security software company BigFix.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Bloomberg figures IBM paid about $400 million for BigFix, which will add vulnerability management and endpoint protection products to its software portfolio and 700 or so customers to its client list.

Twitter’s Tanking

December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks

December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year

December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work