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Expert Tips for Leading Top Performers: How executives at IBM, Lycos, and Xerox keep high-maintenance employees in peak form. Cut Red Tape for Them ...; Tags: Xerox, IBM, Lycos, Professional Development Consulting, BNET Feature, team, overachiever, management, Laurie Sullivan, Sales, Strategy, Sales Strategy, Team Management, Joe, Jill, Lycos Inc.; Articles 2007-11-26
Check out the Best 401(k)s: Does your 401k suck? (Or is it just you?) Find out by stacking up yours against three outstanding plans, each with particular strengths, offered by three very different companies: IBM, M. A. Mortenson, and Nationwide. ...; Tags: Employee, 401(k) Plan, IBM Corp., MoneyWatch, M. A. Mortenson, Nationwide, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Personal Finance, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Retirement Planning, Retirement Income, IBM, M.A. Mortenson, Paulette Miniter; Articles 2009-03-09
How Mobile Apps Are Revolutionizing Advertising.: The Success of Apple's iPhone app store has led to a stampede of brands creating games, services, and other applications as marketing tools. It's an entirely new medium for Madison Avenue, and it is quickly becoming a powerful way to influence consumers. ...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Advertisement, Mobile, App, IBM Corp., Bader, Smart Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, U.S. Open, Apple, iPhone, Apple App Store. iTunes, iTunes store, Steve Jobs, Advertising, Coke, Audi, Gap, Gillette, IBM, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Target. Ogilvy, Android, Nokia, Microsoft Mobile, Any Roddick, Serena Willams, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Kevin Gray; Articles 2009-09-16
Five Strategies for Selling During a Recession: Are these the worst of times? Or are they the best of times — to prove your product's value, snatch up top talent, and make your regular customers feel special? Depends on your perspective. ...; Tags: Strategy, Recession, Stevens, Asher, Employee Training, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Selling, Downturn, Sales Tactics, IBM, Sell Like IBM, Christina Salerno; Articles 2009-06-26
How to Sell Like IBM: Downturn? What downturn? Learn the sales techniques Big Blue uses to maintain momentum in a tough economic climate.Closing a sale is never easy, but when the economy goes into a ditch, it gets tougher still. Yet despite the 2009 downturn, IBM has been able to maintain momentum by expanding its...; Tags: IBM Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, IBM, Big Blue, Sales Technique, Health Care, Pitching, Sales Training, BNET Feature Package; Articles 2009-06-22

How to Create an Effective Sales Presentation: Generic speeches and snazzy PowerPoint slides just don't cut it anymore — especially with corporate customers who have reduced spending to boost their bottom lines. Here's how to retool your sales pitches to better address the needs of your customers. Know Their...; Tags: Industry, Customer, Sales Presentation, Sales Pitch, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, IBM, Big Blue, Sales Presentations, Sales Pitches, BNET Crash Course, Christina Salerno; Articles 2009-06-22
IBM's Secret for Making the Sale: The economy may be in the tank, but IBM still makes salesmanship look easy. How? The secret lies in rigorous research, a focused strategy, and patient execution. Tip 1: Build Credibility That Counts In 2005, Jim Adams, executive...; Tags: Health Care, IBM Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Sales Strategy, Human Resources, Sales, IBM, Big Blue, Economy, Downturn, New Markets, Noah Buhayar; Articles 2009-06-22
Nokia to offer Lotus email on S60 phones: Nokia users will soon be able to access Lotus email from the S60 smartphone, after the handset maker struck a deal with IBM. Although Nokia did not reveal any financial details, the company claims it will now offer the Lotus...; Tags: Phone, Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, IBM Corp., Smart Phones, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, AT&T, IBM, Lotus, Nokia, Research In Motion, SAMSUNG, Sprint Nextel, Charlotte Eyre; Articles 2008-11-21
IBM buys virtualisation firm, Transitive: IBM is buying virtualisation specialist Transitive for an undisclosed sum. Transitive develops cross-platform virtualisation technology and holds 48 global patents. The firm's technology is designed to allow applications to run on multiple operating systems and microprocessors with minimal modification. The...; Tags: IBM Corp., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Francesco Canepa, Accel Partners, Crescendo Venture Management, LLP., IBM, Meritech Capital Partners, Pond Venture Partners; Articles 2008-11-19
EU clears IBM acquisition of Ilog: IBM is set to acquire France-based software company Ilog after European regulators approved the deal earlier this week. IBM first made a EUR215m (USD340m) - or EUR10 (USD12.7) per share - offer for Ilog in July, hoping to combine Ilog's...; Tags: Acquisition, Ilog, IBM Corp., Operational Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales Force Management, Corporate Law, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Sales, Management, Charlotte Eyre, Daimler AG, EU Competition Commission, IBM, Siemens; Articles 2008-11-14
Sun Microsystems under pressure to find buyer: In the wake of Q3 losses of USD1.7bn, Sun Microsystems is under pressure to find a buyer in the face of mounting debt. Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Company, which is writing down the value of its USD700m investment in Sun, is reportedly interested in a potential...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Product Road Map, Sales Strategy, Asset Management, Storage Management, Sales, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Storage, Hardware, editorial, Dell, Fujitsu Limited, HP, IBM, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, Lenovo, Microsoft, MySQL, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems; Articles 2008-11-13
The Best Retirement Plans: Whether you're working for a company or self-employed, these tax-favored savings plans can help you get your retirement account growing again. Has the market bottomed? Who knows? But there's one investing principle that's never in doubt: It always makes sense to grab every penny of tax advantage that Uncle Sam...; Tags: 401(k) Plan, Tax, MoneyWatch, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Personal Finance, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Roth IRA, Roth 401(k), Retirement Savings, Taxes, MoneyWatch Feature Package, Investment Choice, Loans, Financial Advice, IBM, M.A. Mortenson, Nationwide, Employer Match, Rollover, Annuity, Defined Benefit Pension, Health Care, Self-employed, Retirement, SEP IRA, Individual 401(k), Keogh, Retirement Planning; Articles 2009-03-16

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Software Licensing, Business Practices at Heart of IBM Mainframe Criticism: IBM critics say that Big Blue has used anticompetitive practices to keep its tight hold on the global mainframe market, including withholding software licenses to punish customer and competitors looking to bring legacy workloads to non-IBM systems, and closely tying its mainframe software and hardware. Federal regulators are now taking...; Tags: IBM Corp., mainframe; News items 2009-10-08
IBM Launches Cloud Platform for Developers: IBM has announced new solutions for developers to create and deliver software in both public and private cloud environments.IBM has announced new solutions for developers to create and deliver software in both public and private cloud environments.These solutions, announced on Nov. 5, include IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud...; Tags: IBM Corp.; News items 2009-11-05
IBM's Power charge continues: IBM's industry analyst meeting last week in Austin, Texas, covered the present and the future of its Power line. This is the system lineup once called the RS/6000 and pSeries into which was more recently folded the iSeries (previously AS/400, System 36, etc.) to form a new family called IBM...; Tags: IBM Corp.; News items 2009-08-26
Investors See IBM Outside the Tech Recovery: By Arik Hesseldahl Try as it might, IBM IBM couldn't make a convincing case to investors that it's reaping the benefits of the economic recovery that is lifting other tech companies. Even as it raised full-year profit forecasts and beat expectations for third-quarter earnings, IBM also reported a decline in...; Tags: IBM Corp.; News items 2009-10-15
IBM, Ubuntu Cloud Collaboration Package Seeks to Cut Down Microsoft Windows 7: In time for the launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system Oct. 22, IBM released an Ubuntu Linux-based hybrid cloud computing and desktop solution for businesses looking to save some money by taking the hosted software and open-source route. IBM said its Client for Smart Work package is geared to...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, IBM Corp., Ubuntu; News items 2009-10-20
IBM Executive Gave Inside Information about IBM, Sun, AMD: Investigators: According to court documents, Robert Moffat, head of IBM?s hardware business, gave inside information to a New York hedge fund manager and friend about IBM?s own finances as well as about AMD and Sun. Wiretaps were a key tool in bringing the case together, according to court records. Moffat, a...; Tags: executive, information, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.; News items 2009-10-19
Justice Department Looking to Punch IBM's Card? [Digital Daily]: It's been nearly eight years since the U.S. Department of Justice agreed to dissolve its 1956 consent decree with IBM IBM, lifting restrictions that had prevented the company from becoming a monopoly in the market for punch card tabulating and later, electronic data processing machines. But perhaps those restrictions were...; Tags: U.S. Department Of Justice, IBM Corp., mainframe, Computer & Communications Industry Association; News items 2009-10-08
IBM Takes Lotus Domino Native With iPhone, Offers Free Lotus Domino Designer: IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.1 features native support for Apple's iPhone, leveraging Microsoft's ActiveSync technology in its Lotus Notes Traveler mobile device software. E-mail, contacts and calendar data from Lotus Domino will synchronize over the air to the iPhone, helping corporate iPhone users get their messaging information in real-time. IBM this...; Tags: Apple iPhone, IBM Corp., IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Domino; News items 2009-10-08