IBM&#39;s PC saga was two decades in the unmaking
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until then the ruler of a still-nascent industry â-an a cheeky advertisement greeting its new rival. The ad said: &quot;Welcome, IBM.
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International Business Machines&#39;s plans to dispose of its personal computer business will not involve it cutting its ties completely with the revolutionary
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Microsoft can change.  Just give it a few more decades.
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IBM&#39;s (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) PC unit piled up nearly $1 billion in cumulative losses in recent years, the company said in a filing on Thursday detailing the planned sale of the business to China&#39;s Lenovo Group.
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IBM is in talks to sell its personal computer manufacturing business which, if successful, would mark the end of an era in the brief history of the PC, a machine the company helped to invent.
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InfoWorld - Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC, and the world might never have heard the name of Kildall's competitor, who eventually accepted the contract: a Mr. Bill Gates.
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An era will come to an end when IBM sells off its computer manufacturing business, according to The New York Times. A Chinese company seems the likely buyer and the deal should fetch upward of $2 billion.
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SAN FRANCISCO: IBM is reportedly in talks to sell its personal computer business in a deal that could be worth up to $2 billion and would cap a gradual withdrawal from the business it helped to pioneer in 1981.
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While the details are still shrouded in mystery, sources close to the negotiations between computer giant IBM and the China-based PC maker Lenovo say that the companies will announce plans tonight for IBM to sell off its PC business for up to $2 billion.
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Like it or not, buyers of x86 servers, clients, and workstations face a major platform shift as the 32-bit CPUs, operating systems, and applications slowly fade into history.
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San Francisco - It is reported that IBM is to sell its personal computer business in a deal that could be worth up to $2 billion and would cap a gradual withdrawal from the business it helped to pioneer in 1981.
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The New York Times has a genuine scoop today. IBM, which introduced its widely cloned personal computer in 1981, has put its PC business on the block.
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When it began two decades ago, the company now known as Lenovo Group Ltd. was little more than a glorified delivery service, a venture launched by academic researchers in Beijing who earned
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Industry watchers say a report that IBM Corp. has put its once-dominant personal computer business up for sale could signal the first move in a broader consolidation destined to shrink the number of PC manufacturers by about a third over the next couple of years.
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IBM lost the 1980s. But the big payoff may be still to come.
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JP Morgan Chase (JPM:NYSE - news - research) and IBM (IBM:NYSE - news - research) are getting a divorce, ending a $5 billion computer outsourcing deal just two years after it began.
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IBM IBM.N is reportedly in  talks to sell its personal computer business in a deal that  could be worth up to $2 billion and would cap a gradual  withdrawal from the business it helped to pioneer in 1981.