IBM, UK STFC Hartree Centre, NVIDIA and Mellanox Launch High Performance Computing POWER Acceleration and Design Center for Business
PR Newswire - 2 mins ago
IBM (NYSE: IBM), in collaboration with NVIDIA and Mellanox, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Hartree Centre today announced plans for the UK's first POWER Acceleration and Design Center (PADC) designed to help UK businesses exploit high performance computing on OpenPOWER systems for Modelling & Simulation and Big Data Analytics.
IBM: 140.92 (+0.28)
Is Microsoft the Next BlackBerry?
at The Street - Wed Oct 21, 3:45PM CDT
Who's winning the operating system wars? It ain't Microsoft.
IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), BBRY: 7.08 (-0.12), GOOGL: 671.80 (-8.20), MSFT: 47.20 (-0.57), GOOG: 642.61 (-7.67), AAPL: 113.76 (-0.01), HPQ: 28.23 (-0.33), NOK: 6.94 (-0.02)
Another Biotech Sets Off More Selling
at The Street - Wed Oct 21, 3:10PM CDT
Market is feeling very jittery.
BLUE: 80.78 (+0.15), YHOO: 31.12 (-1.71), AMZN: 555.77 (-5.11), TSLA: 210.09 (-2.94), VRX: 118.61 (-28.13), SDS: 20.92 (+0.27), IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), FB: 97.11 (+0.11), CMG: 665.67 (-39.96), GM: 35.42 (+1.94), GOOGL: 671.80 (-8.20), BA: 141.19 (+2.31)
Microsoft Corporation Is Catching Up to Amazon.com Inc in the Cloud
Leo Sun, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Oct 21, 3:00PM CDT
Amazon 's AWS (Amazon Web Services) is the established leader in cloud computing. The platform has 10 times the utilized capacity of its next 14 largest platform competitors combined, according to Gartner ...
AMZN: 555.77 (-5.11), GS: 179.70 (-5.81), IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), IT: 86.02 (-0.93), MSFT: 47.20 (-0.57), ORCL: 36.62 (-0.24)
New Zealand App Developer Overhauls Emergency Alert System on IBM Cloud
PR Newswire - Wed Oct 21, 1:00PM CDT
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that New Zealand-based application developer and emergency network provider, CLOUD M, has migrated its emergency alert tools and system to IBM Cloud for greater reliability and performance.
IBM: 140.92 (+0.28)
The Bears Retreat Again
at The Street - Wed Oct 21, 12:21PM CDT
The action is too strong to be aggressively bearish but too weak to be highly bullish.
YHOO: 31.12 (-1.71), AMZN: 555.77 (-5.11), TSLA: 210.09 (-2.94), SDS: 20.92 (+0.27), IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), FB: 97.11 (+0.11), CMG: 665.67 (-39.96), GM: 35.42 (+1.94), GOOGL: 671.80 (-8.20), BA: 141.19 (+2.31)
Introducing Neo4j on IBM POWER8
Marketwired - Wed Oct 21, 12:02PM CDT
GraphConnect -- Neo Technology, creator of Neo4j, the world's leading graph database, announced today its collaboration with IBM to offer Neo4j(R) on IBM POWER8(R). This collaboration offers a number of benefits to today's leading enterprises by combining real-time graph processing with the capabilities of IBM hardware to scale up and out like never before.
IBM: 140.92 (+0.28)
Jim Cramer -- 4 Companies, Same Problem, Different Strategies
at The Street - Wed Oct 21, 11:52AM CDT
IBM, Walmart, SanDisk and Yum! Brands don't have a lot in common beyond the problem of slowing growth, so no surprise, their CEOs are addressing the issue in disparate ways.
AMZN: 555.77 (-5.11), IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), WMT: 58.64 (-0.11), WDC: 71.44 (-3.42), SNDK: 76.78 (+1.59), YUM: 73.56 (+0.53)
Global Information Governance in Social Business 2015-2019- Market Analysis, Trends, and Forecast
M2 - Wed Oct 21, 10:11AM CDT
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/xngppr/global) has announced the addition of the "Global Information Governance in Social Business 2015-2019- Market Analysis, Trends, and Forecast" report to their offering. The global information governance in social business market to grow at a CAGR of 11.6% over the period 2014-2019. The report, Global Information Governance in Social Business Market 2015-2019, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the Americas, APAC, and EMEA; it also covers the market landscape and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market. The volume of data at enterprise level is rising exponentially and is accentuated by the usage of third platform consisting of mobile, cloud, social media, and analytics. The need for managing information is not merely focused on records management but has become more complex because of growth of legal and regulatory requirements such as financial Dodd-Frank regulations. Similarly, legal establishments are becoming stricter with the standardization of documents and is leading to a rise in e-discovery requirements. Information governance has become a business imperative to reduce cost, extract value, mitigate risk, and increase revenues. The market is categorized broadly in two segments: software and services. This report covers information about the size of the global information governance in social business market by end-users. The report also covers information about the market based on geographies. Key vendors - Accenture - ASG Software - FTI Consulting - HP Autonomy - IBM - Iron Mountain Other prominent vendors - AABYY - CMO Software - EMC - Enablon - Exterro - Gimmal - Intelex Technologies - KCura - Metric Stream - Mega International - OpenText - Oracle - Resolver Key Topics Covered: Part 01: Executive summary Part 02: Scope of the report Part 03: Market research methodology Part 04: Introduction Part 05: Market landscape Part 06: Market segmentation by product Part 07: Market segmentation by end-user Part 08: Geographical segmentation Part 09: Market drivers Part 10: Impact of drivers Part 11: Market challenges Part 12: Impact of drivers and challenges Part 13: Market trends Part 14: Vendor landscape Part 15: Key vendor analysis Part 16: Appendix For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/xngppr/global
IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), IRM: 31.34 (-0.07)
What? Me Worry? The Answer Is Yes
at The Street - Wed Oct 21, 9:18AM CDT
Momentum is limited and the potential for bad news is growing.
YHOO: 31.12 (-1.71), AMZN: 555.77 (-5.11), TSLA: 210.09 (-2.94), SDS: 20.92 (+0.27), IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), CMG: 665.67 (-39.96), GOOGL: 671.80 (-8.20)
Stock Market News for October 21, 2015
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Wed Oct 21, 9:10AM CDT
Benchmarks ended in the red on Tuesday, dragged down by declines in biotech and healthcare stocks
BIIB: 276.34 (+10.53), HOG: 47.03 (-1.22), IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), GILD: 101.73 (+0.07), UTX: 97.97 (+2.35), PFE: 33.46 (-0.54), MRK: 50.59 (+0.20), AMGN: 150.09 (-0.36), VZ: 44.86 (-0.38), REGN: 518.53 (+3.86), TRV: 110.70 (+1.75), CELG: 115.92 (-0.32)
Uganda's Infinity Computers Awards Services and Cloud Deal To IBM
PR Newswire - Wed Oct 21, 9:00AM CDT
Leading Ugandan IT services provider Infinity Computers has chosen IBM (NYSE: IBM) to deliver cloud, analytics and IT services to support a wide range of new web and mobile offerings for its clients.
IBM: 140.92 (+0.28)
Strong earnings from Boeing, GM, others send stocks higher
By The Associated Press - AP - Wed Oct 21, 8:39AM CDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening higher as several big U.S. companies deliver better earnings than the market was expecting.
LMT: 211.56 (+2.83), IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), WDC: 71.44 (-3.42), SNDK: 76.78 (+1.59), YUM: 73.56 (+0.53)
IBM Study: Customer Loyalty Shrinking For Banks at a Time When Relationships Matter Most
PR Newswire - Wed Oct 21, 8:34AM CDT
Bankers aren't doing as well as they think when it comes to customer trust, loyalty and creating a personalized banking experience. A new IBM (NYSE: IBM) study reveals there are serious gaps between how banking executives believe they are doing, and how their customers really feel. Among retail banking executives surveyed, 62 percent think they are delivering an excellent customer service but only 35 percent of retail customers agree -- a 27 percent gap.
IBM: 140.92 (+0.28)
BlueCava Announces Appointment of Bill Varga to Chief Revenue Officer
PR Newswire - Wed Oct 21, 8:00AM CDT
BlueCava, the leader in cross-screen marketing solutions, today announced that veteran software executive Bill Varga has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer. Varga, an early pioneer in the audience targeting space with IP intelligence provider Quova (now Neustar) and CRM leader, SalesLogix (now Infor), most recently served as EVP Sales and Business Development at Ounce Labs (acquired by IBM) and was the go to market leader at Shunra Software (acquired by HP). Varga will lead BlueCava's expansion of global direct and indirect channels.
IBM: 140.92 (+0.28)
Triax Joins the IBM Watson Ecosystem
PR Newswire - Wed Oct 21, 8:00AM CDT
Triax Technologies, Inc and IBM announced today that Triax has joined the IBM Watson Ecosystem, enabling the development of new cognitive applications that Triax will create to help improve player health and safety related to concussive and sub-concussive impacts in sports. As part of the partnership, Triax will harness cognitive computing APIs from the Watson developer platform to help prevent head injuries by leveraging Personality Insights API to better understand an athlete's behavior. This announcement comes as both Triax and IBM participate in #SportsFest(TM) in Brooklyn, a three-day conference and exhibition celebrating the leading innovators in sports, technology and media.
IBM: 140.92 (+0.28)
Triple Play: IBM Scores Three All-Star Partnerships to Change the Game for Athletes, Fans Using Watson
PR Newswire - Wed Oct 21, 8:00AM CDT
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced partnerships with Triax TechnologiesTM, Spare5 and 113 Industries to develop cognitive applications powered by Watson that will help athletes train better, revolutionize golf training, amplify the game-day experience for fans and ultimately transform the future of sports. These organizations are part of a growing ecosystem of third-parties that are building applications, services and businesses embedded with cognitive technology in diverse industries and business disciplines including entertainment, retail, travel and hospitality, healthcare, financial services, legal, and education.
IBM: 140.92 (+0.28)
What Walmart's and IBM’s Troubles Really Tell Us About the U.S. Economy
at The Street - Wed Oct 21, 7:40AM CDT
Is the U.S. economy headed down again? Hardly.
TSLA: 210.09 (-2.94), AMZN: 555.77 (-5.11), GE: 28.85 (+0.07), FB: 97.11 (+0.11), WMT: 58.64 (-0.11), TM: 123.70 (+1.49), HPQ: 28.23 (-0.33), ORCL: 36.62 (-0.24), JNPR: 29.80 (-0.44), COF: 73.68 (-0.90), EQIX: 292.28 (-1.08), IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), RHT: 76.81 (-1.45), TGT: 76.40 (+2.00), MCD: 102.54 (-1.30), DG: 67.55 (+0.52), TWTR: 29.30 (-1.61)
The Bears Have More Ammunition to Work With
at The Street - Wed Oct 21, 5:40AM CDT
However, the price action doesn't confirm the bearish thesis.
YHOO: 31.12 (-1.71), AMZN: 555.77 (-5.11), TSLA: 210.09 (-2.94), IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), CMG: 665.67 (-39.96), GOOGL: 671.80 (-8.20)
Oct. 21 Premarket Briefing: 10 Things You Should Know
at The Street - Wed Oct 21, 5:37AM CDT
U.S. stock futures rise and shares in Japan move higher on hopes for fresh stimulus from the Bank of Japan.
KO: 42.19 (-0.10), BIIB: 276.34 (+10.53), AXP: 76.51 (-0.44), CS: 24.98 (-0.98), FCAU: 15.20 (-0.74), BA: 141.19 (+2.31), SBUX: 60.53 (-0.35), YHOO: 31.12 (-1.71), EBAY: 24.21 (-0.21), IBM: 140.92 (+0.28), LRCX: 70.79 (+0.76), TXN: 51.90 (-0.53), CMG: 665.67 (-39.96), GM: 35.42 (+1.94), EMC: 25.77 (-1.72), GOOGL: 671.80 (-8.20), KLAC: 63.98 (+10.12)