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What Apple, Inc. gets from its new iOS partnership with IBM

By the late 80s, IBM had lost control of the PC to Microsoft on its own ... 72 million subscribers as of the first quarter of 2014. iPhones have taken a painful bite out of BlackBerry's enterprise sal... read more

Scientists Describe Five Phases of Quarter-Life Crisis, Recommend the Experience

Are you in a rut? Is it time to take life into your own hands? Are you ready take a time out to find yourself, and start over? Are you 25? It may be your quarter-life crisis knocking, say psychologist... read more

TidBITS Hits a Quarter Century of Internet Publishing

Connecting with Halcyon/Northwest Nexus in Seattle in 1991 — The next challenge TidBITS faced was our 1991 move to Seattle, where Tonya had gotten a job supporting Word for Microsoft ... much for you ... read more

Nothing sucks like success

It was the Microsoft problem all over again. Microsoft was a great success with its model of selling software for individual use that was still compatible with systems created a quarter century ago .. ... read more

The Market’s Latest Beating Has Brought Out the Best in IBM Stock

On Wednesday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost ... out of the question. While other companies have suffered steeper declines on paper, including sexier competitors like Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSF... read more

Paul: Underwater Cables Leave Ireland Tangled – and Implicated – in the Internet

Walking Sandymount or Dollymount strands, you’ll encounter some people out jogging, others letting their dogs play with the tide as it comes in or rolls back out, and others staring out at the endless ... read more

The IBM/Lenovo Deal: Victory For China?

“We won’t be satisfied with the number three position. We will formally challenge the other two major competitors in the global PC market.” Yang added that top management has “analyzed in-depth why .. ... read more

Innovation isn’t what you think it is

Regardless, the beneficiaries of PARC’s inventions were primarily Apple and IBM and Microsoft ... won’t be redefining a field or changing an industry, you can create a lot of value with incremental ch... read more

7 Dividend Stocks to Buy Amid This Tough Market Environment

This summer, my InvestorPlace colleague Vince Martin wrote an excellent piece detailing the nitty-gritty of dividend stocks, including why you ... AMC pays out a 4% dividend yield. As boring as it is, ... read more

The Sad Fate of Companies -- and Empires

The roster of faded glory includes former kingpins as IBM… Microsoft… General Electric ... With this debt many have purchased their own stock at an unprecedented gallop. First-quarter buybacks totaled ... read more

What were we thinking? How we chose the CNBC 25

And even if IBM (NYSE:IBM - News) handed him the ball, he didn't fumble. He built the dominant productivity software of the past quarter-century, Microsoft Office (NASDAQ ... culture over the past 25 ... read more

The Market’s Latest Beating Has Brought Out the Best in IBM Stock

On Wednesday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost ... century. Given this context, it’s no surprise that IBM stock hasn’t captured the Street’s attention. Most covering analysts rank shares as ... read more