"Peripatetic Polyglot" Léo Apotheker Wants to Save HP's Soul by Buying Software Companies

Days before his big public debut, Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO makes it official: The company is going shopping for software companies.

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Almost Famous: David Maher Roberts of The Filter

This week we caught up with the globe-trotting David Maher Roberts, CEO of The Filter, a media recommendation engine founded by music legend Peter Gabriel. David commutes between the United Kingdom where he lives and the United States, where he works. We found him during a stop in Texas, appropriately via Skype.

IBM to SAS: From Hell’s Heart I Stab at Thee

According to IDC, the worldwide market for business analytics software will swell to $25 billion this year. Little wonder, then, that IBM is beefing up its presence in that sector with the $1.2 billion acquisition of data analysis software maker SPSS. Business analytics powerhouse SAS best watch its back.
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