The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), founded in 1911, manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide and, as of 2013, has held the record for most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years.
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman got a pretty good pay boost last year, receiving more than $19.5 million in total compensation for fiscal 2014, ending October 31. That’s $2 million more than she got the previous year, according to HP’s just-released proxy… Read more »
Server monitoring gets hot SolarWinds, which monitors multi-vendor technologies running in house, last week bought Librato to extend its reach into the cloud. Librato is noted for its ability to watch workloads… Read more »
IBM’s CEO Ginni Rometty is taking a bonus of $3.6 million for 2014, according to SEC documents posted Friday and spotted by Bloomberg News. She will also receive a 6.7 percent salary… Read more »
Today’s retailers must understand and service customers that operate both online and in-store and expect their chosen brands to be available anytime and on multiple devices. Read more »
is teaming up with food conglomerate Mars to study, and hopefully protect, citizens from foodborne illnesses by sequencing the genes of the tiny organisms that populate our food chains. Consisting… Read more »
Western companies are doing big business in China, but storm clouds lie on the horizon. According to a New York Times report, new banking security rules approved in the People’s Republic… Read more »
Reports of big layoffs to come this week at IBM were correct, at least with regard to timing. Starting Wednesday, the message board at Alliance@IBM, a site manned by former IBM employees, was full… Read more »
Amazon is once again adding to its business-suite arsenal, this time with the announcement of WorkMail, the company’s new email and calendar service, according to a report by the Wall Street… Read more »
The writing was on the wall when IBM named another guy to head up its cloud operations, but now it’s apparently official: Lance Crosby, the CEO of SoftLayer, which IBM acquired… Read more »