by Brian Pereira | May 5, 2019 | TRENDING, BIZ NEWS, MERGERS & COLLABORATIONS
Do you remember the “multi-billion dollar” deal that IBM signed with the Bharti Airtel, some five years ago? Well, history repeats itself, but this time, IBM signed a five-year agreement with Vodafone Idea Limited, India’s second-largest telecom...
by Brian Pereira | Mar 17, 2019 | TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM was in India last week and spoke at The Think Leadership forum, an IBM Innovation Exchange, in Mumbai on March 13. The agenda focused on ‘Reinventing Business with Next-generation Technologies’ as...
by Brian Pereira | Nov 28, 2018 | TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
Artificial Intelligence is a good boardroom topic since it is considered an enabler of business transformation. But AI also ties in to cloud and data – you can’t have AI without getting your cloud and your data sets right. The fact is, most organisations are just...
by Brian Pereira | Oct 31, 2018 | BIZ NEWS, MERGERS & COLLABORATIONS, OPEN SOURCE, TECH NEWS, TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK
31-October/ANALYSIS: IBM acquires Red Hat in a deal valued at $34 billion. The news caught everyone by surprise — employees of both companies were stunned to hear this news last Sunday. However, I have read about similar mega-mergers & acquisitions before:...
by Brian Pereira | Oct 29, 2018 | TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK, BIZ NEWS, MERGERS & COLLABORATIONS
ARMONK, N.Y. and RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — IBM and Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source cloud software, announced today that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued...
