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IBM’s marketing chief wants work done on site, not from home

by Amy Scott
Mar 22, 2017
The company that led the way in telecommuting is reining in its employees, back to the office.
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IBM CEO pushes new educational model prior to Trump meeting

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Dec 14, 2016
Welcome the six-year high school.
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivers a keynote address at CES 2016 earlier this year.
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IBM: when corporations took care of their employees

by Dan Bobkoff
Jun 13, 2016
IBM had a policy of full employment and went without layoffs for seven decades.
 Louis V. Gerstner became CEO of IBM in 1993. Later that year, the company would lay off thousands of workers. 
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'Silicon Cowboys' documents rise of Compaq

by Molly Wood
Mar 29, 2016
A look at the small Texas startup that took on IBM to become the largest computer company in the world.
The Compaq Computer team with the first Compaq portable computer. From L-R: Ken Roberts, Jim Harris, Bill Murto, Steve Ullrich, Walt Russell, Rod Canion, Tim Tindle, John Reilly, Steve Flannigan, Guy Fielder, Gary Stimac, Bill Bray and Ted Papajohn.
Courtesy Compaq Computer Corporation
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Go-playing robots are the new chess-playing robots

by Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood
Mar 9, 2016
Google's AlphaGo program beat Lee Se-dol, one of the world's best Go players.
In this handout image provided by Google, South Korean professional Go player Lee Se-Dol waits after putting the first stone against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during the Google DeepMind Challenge Match on March 9, 2016 in Seoul, South Korea.
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Companies team up to get better value in health care

by Dan Gorenstein
Feb 5, 2016
Twenty firms will share data on how much they're paying for care for workers.
Twenty major companies will be coming together to discuss healthcare costs. 
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States take back some economic incentives

by Gigi Douban
May 22, 2015
Businesses that don't make good on promised jobs are seeing their benefits suspended.
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IBM banks on Watson for progress and profit

by Ben Johnson
Apr 22, 2015
Despite three years of falling revenue, IBM has a plan.
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Tapping Watson's computing power for health

by Dan Gorenstein
Apr 14, 2015
Apple, IBM, Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson are partnering up.
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Blue chips: down, but not out

by Tracey Samuelson
Oct 23, 2014
With news of dismal earnings, are blue chips losing their sheen?
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