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As Slowdown Drags On, IBM Looks to Governments for New Growth

by Erik on August 6, 2009

in IBM

“There has been a very significant change at IBM,” says Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who features the company among a handful of others in her upcoming book “SuperCorp.”Rather than merely making sales calls to push computers, Ms. Kanter says, IBM is showing customers how to revamp business functions. IBM “is back,” she says.

via Wall Street Journal.

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I.B.M. Profit Exceeds Wall Street Forecasts

by Erik on July 18, 2009

in Economy, IBM, Markets

International Business Machines has long been viewed as a barometer for corporate technology spending. And its second-quarter results, announced after the close of the market on Thursday, provided another encouraging sign for the technology sector. Yet I.B.M.’s performance, analysts say, is probably an indication that the company’s strategic steps in recent years are paying off, rather than a broad endorsement for the technology industry as a whole.

[via NYTimes]

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At Wal-Mart, Labels to Reflect Green Intent

by Erik on July 18, 2009

in Green Tech, Retail

Shoppers expect the tags on Wal-Mart items to have rock-bottom prices. In the future they may also have information about the product’s carbon footprint, the gallons of water used to create it, and the air pollution left in its wake. [via NYTimes]

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