IBM said Thursday that it officially completed its all-cash $4.6 billion acquisition of Apptio, the Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud and IT management company. Previously: From idea to IPO to IBM: How… Read More
Feb. 9, 2017, will go down as one of the toughest days in Apptio’s history. It had been less than five months since the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise technology company pulled… Read More
IBM announced a deal Monday to buy Apptio for $4.6 billion from Vista Equity Partners, less than five years after the private equity firm acquired the Bellevue, Wash.-based cloud and… Read More
Less than a week after the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy organized a consortium to focus the power of artificial intelligence on addressing the coronavirus outbreak, another… Read More
Two new rankings show Microsoft rising up the list of companies that won U.S. patents in 2019, based on the total number of patents issued for the year. The Redmond… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Mmmmm, blockchain. IBM hosted a dinner this week at CES with celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez, who put together a fantastic three-course meal featuring scallop aguachile, swiss chard-wrapped… Read More
Microsoft, Amazon and Google aren’t the only companies making headway in quantum computing. Intel is showing off a new type of chip for processing qubits, D-Wave Systems is getting a… Read More
IBM filed a lawsuit against Zillow this week, accusing the real estate giant of piggybacking off its patented technology to build key parts of its home value estimation and search… Read More
A number of big-name tech companies — including Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Red Hat, IBM, and Intel — are joining forces in a new effort to boost cloud security by protecting… Read More
Thor Culverhouse is no longer the CEO of enterprise cloud services company Skytap, and former chief technology officer Bradley Schick will lead the company going forward, GeekWire has learned. “I… Read More
— You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in tech who doesn’t know about Visual Studio — and most of them probably use it. Now, with the launch of Visual Studio… Read More
This past August, executives from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce banded together to promote data sharing in healthcare. Nearly a year later, the world’s largest tech companies aren’t… Read More
— Jill Keto signed on to be chief marketing officer at Easy Metrics, a supply chain operations startup that helps companies manage labor costs. Keto came from Apptio, where she… Read More
Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence service, is taking its act on the road. IBM plans to announce later Tuesday at its IBM Think conference in San Francisco that Watson will soon… Read More
Red Hat plans to announce Tuesday that it will donate an important tool that helps ensure Kubernetes clusters run reliably to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, hosts of KubeCon 2018… Read More
[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Blair Hanley Frank, principal analyst at global technology research and advisory firm ISG.] IBM’s blockbuster acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion is a… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The small world of quantum physics is a big deal on the frontier of computer science. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella rates quantum computing as one of three key… Read More
While software continues to eat the world, the philosophies and tactics used to build that software are constantly changing. Getting from idea to working software has never been easy, and… Read More
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory staked its claim to retake the lead from China in the world’s supercomputer race with a machine capable of performing 200… Read More
Microsoft Teams is now being used by 200,000 organizations in 181 markets around the world, up four-fold since the tech giant’s workplace chat and collaboration technology launched one year ago… Read More
The Department of Defense is planning to have a cloud bake-off this year, soliciting proposals from the tech industry to build a next-generation cloud infrastructure project that would bring the… Read More
Microsoft Azure is seeing demand for cloud-based blockchain services, Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie said Friday, but it doesn’t sound like the company’s cloud computing division will be changing its… Read More
IBM’s decision to sue a longtime human resources executive for taking a new job at Microsoft is raising questions among lawyers who specialize in employment agreements and non-compete clauses. Earlier… Read More
UPDATED below with Microsoft comment and McIntyre declaration. Also see this follow-up story about how employment lawyers are reacting to the suit. IBM has filed suit against one of its… Read More
PITTSBURGH — At a mall in Sydney, Australia, “the world’s first smart trash can” is fastidiously photographing, weighing, and sorting garbage. The industrious TrashBot is a long way from home.… Read More
IBM is suing Expedia, alleging that the popular travel site has for years been infringing on several of its patents, some of which date back to the early days of… Read More
Blue Box founder Jesse Proudman is leaving IBM two-and-a-half years after the selling the private cloud company to Big Blue. But Proudman, named GeekWire’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year in… Read More
Companies that want the benefits of modern cloud computing without the cloud turn to private cloud services in order to achieve that goal, and IBM has a new version of… Read More
A large amount of modern software development involves re-using components from older applications, open-source projects, and across teams within a company. Keeping track of those components can get very hard… Read More
IBM is making a 10-year, $240 million investment in artificial intelligence research through a new lab it’s creating in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The investment will support… Read More