IBM to help establish market for trading weather options
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What are the odds of a cold day in hell? Storm Exchange is setting up a market that will let corporations analyze business changes due to fluctuations in weather.
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Put the market to work for you ... today.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today the availability of Exstream Dialogue for workstation server platforms, a comprehensive suite of business communications middleware.
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Hoping to both bolster resources available to its network of business partners as well as expand its number of partners, IBM on Tuesday introduced services and support programs that boost financial support for co-marketing campaigns and grant deeper access to IBMâs sales network to close deals faster.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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The New York Stock Exchange and  International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N on Tuesday  introduced a new wireless system that will ensure more  efficient processing and tracking of stock trades.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission may require brokers to obtain the best prices for their clients' stock trades, a practice now followed only by the New York Stock Exchange, people familiar with the matter said yesterday.
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RFID work done at an IBM chip factory becomes the basis for a new line of consulting services. By Laurie Sullivan. IBM is introducing a line of radio-frequency identification services for midmarket companies
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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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By Anne Krishnan, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 8--IBM wants workers to be prepared when it freezes its pension fund next year and switches workers into investments they will have to manage themselves.
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Nasdaq will start an options exchange to capitalize on a growing market whose competitors and structure are rapidly changing.
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A strategy to cope with the market's malaise.
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Investor's Business Daily - IBM on Wednesday took the wraps off a new design it has developed for faster memory on chips, which should make video games peppier and networks zippier.
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A patent application turned up by the Associated Press reveals that IBM has proposed an electronic trading system that would enable a new kind of derivatives market for intellectual property. In this market, traders would buy and sell "floating" rights to chunks of a company's IP portfolio, thus becoming not only the recipient of royalties from that portfolio, but the designated defender of those IP rights in court, for a limited period of time.
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The Nasdaq Stock Market said the move will help meet competition from rivals who are also expanding overseas.
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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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Cognos executives first approached IBM in the months leading up to&#160;IBM&#39;s pending $5 billion deal to buy the company, not the other way around, according to a document Cognos submitted Friday to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The filing was prepared for Cognos shareholders in advance of the Jan. 14 vote on the sale.The details it provides of the negotiations between IBM and the company stand in contrast to past statements made by Rob Ashe, the Canadian business-intelligence software maker&#39;s CEO, who at one time stressed the company&#39;s game plan was to become the top independent BI vendor in the market.But clearly, those ambitions weakened as the space saw a dramatic consolidation in 2007 with&#160;SAP scooping up Business Objects&#160;and&#160;Oracle buying Hyperion.In fact, Cognos talked with potential suitors as far back as the middle of last year, according to the filing. The vendor said a firm it identified only as &quot;Company X&quot; approached it about a possible acquisition on July 19, 2006, but those discussions eventually broke down, according to the filing, which does not reveal Company X&#39;s price-per-share offer.Negotiations ceased on Nov. 20, 2006, and Cognos subsequently reached out to IBM in December 2006 to gauge its interest, according to the filing. &quot;While our board of directors had not determined that a sale of Cognos was the most desirable outcome, it believed that IBM&#39;s interest was of relevance in considering any strategic alternative in the event that Company X or other potential acquirers approached us,&quot; it states.Company X attempted to restart talks with Cognos on Dec. 6 but refused to raise its offer, according to the filing.Ashe then met on Jan. 8 with Ambuj Goyal, general manager of IBM&#39;s information management division, and Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software Group.Cognos entered a confidentiality agreement with IBM on Jan. 31, and executives from the two companies met a second time on Feb. 2.Talks continued throughout the year but revolved around partnership opportunities until Sept. 21, when Goyal and David Johnson, IBM&#39;s vice president of corporate development, called Ashe &quot;on an unsolicited basis, and expressed IBM&#39;s interest in acquiring Cognos,&quot; the filing states.The two firms spent the next several weeks haggling over a price for Cognos. IBM&#39;s initial offer was $50 to $52 per common share in cash, but Cognos deemed it insufficient, according to the filingFollowing a series of back-and-forth negotiations, IBM raised its price to $57. Cognos did not accept, but said it would proceed based on a $58-per-share offer, the filing states.IBM agreed, and the firms eventually signed the deal on Nov. 11.A Cognos spokeswoman said Monday that the company would not comment on the filing. Shares of the company were trading at about $57 midday.
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IBM Corp. is enhancing its software developer&#39;s support program by creating a software code exchange.