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The Day Dot-Coms Were Invented
Monopolies can, as AT&T and IBM did before the Internet. Xerox partnered up to develop Ethernet standards in 1979 with Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel Corporation, and my tiny start-up, 3Com Corporation. A big ugly standardization fight ensued among DIX, IBM, and even General Motors, but the good people of Project 802 persisted, and years later Ethernet became an open industry standard (IEEE 802.3). Today is March 15, 2010, and we have two big anniversaries to celebrate. First, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is leading the celebration
HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 15, 2010
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Business Management and Holistic, Critical Thinking
As a result, business schools are moving into territory “more traditionally associated with the liberal arts: multidisciplinary approaches, an understanding of global and historical context and perspectives, a greater focus on leadership and social responsibility and, yes, learning how to think critically.” I could not agree more, based on my personal experiences in business, - as an executive at IBM for many years, and more recently as a consultant at IBM and Citigroup.  But, what companies generally want from the top students in MBA programs, - as well as from top students in
Irving Wladawsky-Berger - Saturday, March 6, 2010
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Do Open Protocols Bring Storage Costs Down?
HDS is a company that plays on both sides of the storage spectrum (management layer and disk) and it's partnerships include relationships with HP (as OEM) and companies like Cisco and Brocade as go-to-market partners. It is tempting to "hardwire" solutions together, but it is a bigger win when instead these are loosely coupled and partner-ready. IBM, HP, The move to virturalization leaves stone is being left unturned. It touched the public network via EC2 (and now a host of hosts) it formed the Cloud and fused a new generation of the Internet.
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 5, 2010
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  • IBM Adopts Saba as its Learning Technology Partner
    A very important partnership was announced today: IBM announced a major commitment to Saba as its primary learning management technology partner. Background Background on IBM’s Learning Platform... Bersin Tags: Enterprise Learning HR Systems LMS, LCMS ibm lms Sab Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management ...Tags:
    Josh Bersin - Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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  • IBM Debuts New Social Network for Business Partners to Discover, Collaborate, & Profit
    Today, IBM is launching PartnerWorld Communities , a new social net for the hardware/software giant's partners to identify skills, resources, and new business opportunities with one another. Partners will be able to develop online communities that make their skills visible to other partners, connect with them on tech innovations, and develop and deliver products through interactive forums before beta testing. IBM is concurrently launching their Business Partner Development Series, an educational tool for partners who need insight on creating dynamic infrastructures, selling to the midmarket, and selling to the CFO.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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  • Lotus Notes Soon To Become Even More LinkedIn
    LinkedIn has partnered with IBM to create a new plugin that integrates its professional social network into Lotus Notes, a popular business desktop client that includes Email, calendar, and IM functionality. Tags: Linkedin ibm lotus Company & Product Profile The plugin is making its debut to the public at Lotusphere , with plans for its release in the first half of 2009. For users who spend much of their day ‘living’ in their Email client, the new plugin could be a welcome addition.
    TechCrunch - Monday, January 19, 2009
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  • Confirmed: IBM Acquires Database Security Startup Guardium For Undisclosed Amount
    Rumors were swirling that IBM would be acquiring database security company Guardium after the Israeli financial newspaper, TheMarker, reported the acquisition yesterday (translated version here ). TheMarker reported that IBM is shelling out $225 million for Massachusetts-based Guardium. The startup protects databases for Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Big Blue has officially confirmed to TechCrunch that it has acquired Guardium but did not disclose financial terms. A
    TechCrunch - Monday, November 30, 2009
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  • IBM and Procter & Gamble's 21st Century Workplaces
    Companies such as Procter & Gamble, IBM, and others are trying to create innovation and profits through values and principles that enable them to have a positive social impact. IBM created an innovation called Matching Learning Accounts to offer incentives for employees to invest in their own continuing education. IBM matches individual contributions into a portable individual savings fund that employees U.S. unemployment numbers came in just before Labor Day , and they are grim: 9.7
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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  • The $25 Million Demo. Yext Scores A Big Round From IVP After TechCrunch50 Debut.
    Yext uses speech-to-text recognition licensed from IBM and fine-tuned with its own algorithms for each business category it targets. Co-founder Brent Metz used to be an engineer in IBM’s speech science labs, and his name appears on many IBM patents. He took a few meetings with the most serious VCs, and ended up closing a $25 million B round, led by Institutional Venture Partners (which is also an investor in Twitter). Howard Lerman can be a little intense. After the CEO of Yext finished his demo at this year’s Techcrunch50 (embedded below) he left
    TechCrunch - Thursday, October 1, 2009
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  • The 2008 IBM Global CEO Study
    IBM just released the 2008 Global CEO Study . IBM has been conducting such studies every two years for the last several years by interviewing hundreds of CEO's around the world. Disruptive, innovative enterprise and industry models: CEOs are moving aggressively toward global business designs, deeply changing capabilities and partnering more extensively Four years ago, the 2004 study found that CEOs were emerging from the depressed business environment caused by the bursting of the dot com bubble , and were beginning to shift their priorities from cost cutting to driving profitable growth and strengthening overall financial performance.
    Irving Wladawsky-Berger - Monday, May 19, 2008
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  • IBM Taps Vietnam for VC/Startup Partnerships
    Today, IBM will announce its plans to target Vietnam as a key market for new investments and partnerships with venture capital firms and affiliated startups in Southeast Asia. Specific areas of interest for IBM investment include analytics, clean tech, cloud computing, smart grids, electronic healthcare, and green data centers. According to an email from Tod Freeman, global communications manager The hardware/software giant will open a new facility in Vietnam and will start joint research and curriculum programs with local universities. The company's expansion into Vietnam
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, May 21, 2009
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  • Sensors on Shipping Containers: IBM Launches New Tracking Software
    IBM has launched a new product called Returnable Container Management , which uses the Internet of Things to track and measure the usage of shipping containers. This new technology from IBM uses sensors to analyze the inventory and cycle times of containers (and other reusable assets) as they move through the supply chain. The software becomes available with the new version of IBM InfoSphere Traceability Server These containers are a large, dull but essential part of the supply chain for manufacturers - they are used to hold automobile parts, meat, pharmaceuticals and anything else that needs to be shipped from one place to another .
    ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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  • NetSuite and InsideView Partner to Create 'Social ERP'
    Better understanding of customers and partners to assess payment risk and improve collection processes Additonal NetSuite partners are planning to build their own integrations, which the company says may mean more social components into the NetSuite environment. It also represents another example of how business intelligence applications from companies like IBM will begin to compete in this realm as more efforts continue to meld structured and unstructured information. A growing debate in Enterprise 2.0 circles focuses on what value new technologies have for people who
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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