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IBM Signals a New Round of Acquisitions

in News on October 4, 2011 at 4:45 am PT

IBM bought 15 companies last year, yet has only bought three this year. Could it be on the verge of a new wave of dealmaking? A senior Big Blue exec signals that it just might.

Was Apotheker HP’s First Choice of CEO? [Updated]

in News on October 1, 2010 at 3:15 am PT

Hewlett-Packard’s decision to appoint former SAP chief Leo Apotheker as CEO was a move few industry observers saw coming. “It’s a bit of a head-scratcher,” one veteran software executive told me, noting that an enterprise guy like Apotheker wasn’t an obvious choice to head HP, a company whose strengths lie in hardware and consumer technology.