Customer Service Is Next Job for IBM’s Watson

Keeping track of what consumers like and dislike is a beefy computing problem.
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Meet IBM’s “Boy And His Atom,” Stars of the Smallest Movie Ever Made

An animated short made with individual atoms.
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IBM Boosts Share Buyback and Dividend

IBM said today that its board of directors has approved an additional $5 billion in share buybacks and a 12 percent hike in its quarterly dividend. The new dividend will be 95 cents a share. It’s the 18th year in a row that IBM has increased its quarterly dividend, and it has been paying one consistently since 1916. The move follows a quarterly earnings report that fell short of expectations.

IBM Acquires UrbanCode, Speeding Up Software Updates

Deal-making continues.
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IBM Takes a Beating

All winning streaks come to an end. For International Business Machines Corp., the moment came this week.

IBM Results Fall Short of Expectations

Off the mark.
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Eyes on IBM Results Amid Slowing in Enterprise Tech Spending

How solid is Big Blue?
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How IBM Brings the Masters to Golf Fans

There’s a lot happening on the iPad, on your phone and in the background.
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IBM Makes a Big Bet on OpenStack in the Cloud

As it did with Linux a decade ago, Big Blue is backing an open source standard in the cloud.
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