IBM in talks to sell its PC business
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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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IBM Corp. has put its PC business up for sale, according to a story published on Friday on the Web site of The New York Times. IBM is discussing selling the business to
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IBM is selling its PC-making business to China's largest personal computer maker, Lenovo Group Ltd., for &#36;1.25 billion, marking the U.S. giant's retreat from an industry it helped pioneer in 1981.
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NEW YORK, December 8  - International Business Machines (IBM.NYS) has decided to sell its personal computers business to Chinaâs Lenovo Group for $1.75 billion in a cash and stock deal.
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IBM appears close to signing a deal to turn its PC business over to Lenovo Group of China. Industry experts say it makes sense for IBM to get out of the low-margin PC business, but caution that
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Late Tuesday, IBM announced that it&#39;s selling its PC business to Lenovo Group Limited, the leading PC brand in China. IBM&#39;s current PC business ranks a distant third behind Dell and HP
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HONG KONG - China&#39;s biggest computer maker said Tuesday it is in acquisition talks with a major international technology company, a disclosure which comes amid reports it might buy IBM Corp.
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IBM IBM.N is looking to sell  its personal computer business in a deal that could be worth up  to $2 billion, The New York Times reported on Friday, capping a  gradual withdrawal from the business it pioneered.
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IBM's deal to sell its personal computer business to China's Lenovo, a move likely to reshape the industry, signals the PC has evolved into a mass consumer item with little profit, analysts say.
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IBM's personal computer business, which it is selling to Lenovo Group of China, has lost money for the past 3 1/2 years.
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This week, IBM said it is selling off most of its PC division to Lenovo, China&#39;s No. 1 PC maker. The news is likely to rattle IBM customers - but it may end up benefiting them long term.
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IBM, whose first PC in 1981 moved personal computing out of the hobby shop and into the corporate and consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale, people close to the negotiations said Thursday.
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IBM is expected to announce Tuesday after the close of the market an historic pact to sell its $11.5 billion PC business to China PC giant Lenovo, sources said.
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Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group says it is in the advanced stages of discussions to make a major tech deal--one that is widely believed to be with IBM.
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Word that IBM is mulling a move to sell its desktop and notebook PC business to China-based Lenovo Group had executives at most of Big Blue&#39;s vendor competitors scurrying to stay out of the limelight until more details of the deal--and final word on
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IBM may need to do some creative deal making in order to sell PC business to China&#39;s Lenovo. By Robert Cyran, Breakingviews. LONDON (Breakingviews) - It&#39;s no surprise IBM is in talks to sell its PC business
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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.