Bloomberg appoints ex-IBM CEO as privacy adviser
Bloomberg LP, the financial news and information service, on Friday said it has appointed Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, as an independent ...

U.S stocks rise for third week in a row
Small was beautiful this week. The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 15,000 for the first time on Tuesday, then held above that milestone for ...

Intel taps COO Krzanich as chipmaker's next CEO
Intel, one of the pillars of Silicon Valley, is following its traditions and promoting an insider to the job of CEO. The world's largest chipmaker is ...
Buffett says women key to nation's prosperity
Billionaire Warren Buffett is optimistic about America's economic future because the nation has begun to unleash the potential of women.

IBM pulls the stock market out of a morning slump
News that IBM will buy back more stock and raise its dividend helped pull major stock indexes out of a morning slump Tuesday. IBM and other technology ...

S&P 500 reaches new high, led by tech
Technology companies led the Standard & Poor's 500 index to an all-time closing high Monday. The stock market has recovered all the ground it lost ...

Stocks recover slightly, ending tough week
Strong earnings from a pair of technology giants helped the stock market recover some of its losses Friday, a positive end to Wall Street's worst week ...

US futures up, capping a volatile week of trading
U.S. stock futures are sharply higher, extending a volatile week in which major U.S. indexes suffered some of the year's worst losses. Dow Jones ...

IBM 1Q net income slips, results miss expectations
IBM Corp.'s first-quarter net income and revenue declined due to delays in closing several of the technology company's large software and mainframe ...

Slight decline in early trading on Wall Street
Disappointing earnings results weighed on the stock market in early trading on Thursday, following two steep drops this week. Shortly after 11:30 a.m.

Futures move higher on improved earnings
U.S. stock futures rose Thursday as the government released its latest jobs report and U.S. corporations continued to post strong quarterly earnings.

Hackers target Israeli websites, fail to disrupt
An international cyber attack campaign against Israeli government websites on Sunday failed to cause serious disruptions despite dire threats from the ...

Warren Buffett releases annual letter on Friday
What will life be like without Warren Buffett? Berkshire Hathaway shareholders may have gotten a glimpse into that future. Most of Berkshire's deals ...

Poland emerging as major European outsourcing hub
The first time Javier Bofarull Marques left Spain for Poland, it was for love. It was 2006, a boom time in Spain, and his friends thought he was crazy

Dell's founder strikes deal to turn it around
It's easy to forget now, but Michael Dell was the Mark Zuckerberg of his day. Hailed as a young genius, he created the inexpensive, made-to-order ...
Oracle to buy Acme Packet for about $2.1B
Oracle will buy Acme Packet Inc., which makes equipment for telecommunications companies, for about $2.1 billion. Acme's gear is used by more than ...
Lenovo profit boosted by smartphones, tablets
Personal computer maker Lenovo Group said Wednesday its quarterly profit rose 34 percent to a record high on strong sales of smartphones and tablet ...

IBM sends Watson to NY college to boost its skills
Watson, the supercomputer famous for beating the world's best human "Jeopardy!" champions, is going to college. IBM is announcing Wednesday that it ...

Analysts to Apple: Bend your knee to Wall Street
Apple needs to start making nice with Wall Street, analysts said Thursday as investors hammered the company's stock. The sell-off put Apple a ...

IBM's results lift Dow average to a 5-year high
Strong earnings from tech giants nudged the stock market to a five-year high Wednesday. Investors drew encouragement from a vote by the House of ...
Software growth helps IBM boost 4Q earnings
Growing software businesses such as Internet-based computing and data analytics helped IBM boost earnings per share for the 40th consecutive quarter ...

Lenovo to release giant 27-inch 'coffee table PC'
Dismayed that family members are spread out over the house, each with a separate PC or tablet? Lenovo has something it believes will get them back ...

Bar code's co-inventor N. Joseph Woodland dies, 91
Norman Joseph Woodland, the co-inventor of the bar code that labels nearly every product in stores and has boosted productivity in nearly every sector ...

IBM shifts 401(k) policy to once-a-year matches
IBM is making changes to its employee benefits that may cause other large corporations to follow suit. The technology company will begin making ...