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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:47:57 GMT</pubDate>  
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					<title>IBM to Acquire SoftLayer to Accelerate Adoption of Cloud Computing in the Enterprise</title>
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					IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., the world&#39;s largest privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider. The acquisition will strengthen IBM’s leadership position in cloud computing and will help speed business adoption of public and private cloud solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. 
					
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					<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:47:57 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Board Approves 12 Percent Increase in Quarterly Cash Dividend; Authorizes $5.0 Billion for Stock Repurchase</title>
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					The IBM board of directors today declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.95 per common share, payable June 10, 2013 to stockholders of record May 10, 2013.  
					
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					<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:48:46 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Reports 2013 First-Quarter Results</title>
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					IBM today announced first-quarter 2013 diluted earnings of $2.70 per share, a year-to-year increase of 3 percent.  Operating (non-GAAP) diluted earnings were $3.00 per share, compared with operating diluted earnings of $2.78 per share in the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 8 percent. 
					
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					<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:13:04 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Keystone Bank Adopts IBM Smarter Computing Solution to Drive Business Transformation Agenda</title>
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					Keystone Bank today announced the ongoing and successful transformation of its business as a result of its acquisition of state-of-the art technology from IBM (NYSE: IBM), ushering in a new era of innovative service delivery culture, and customer-centric operations for the bank.
					
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					<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:01:18 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Opens Seventh Mexican Branch in City of Mérida</title>
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					IBM today announced the opening a new office in Mérida – the largest population center in the Mexican southeastern region - as it continues to expand in the fastest growing cities in the world. 
					
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					<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:00:37 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM&#39;s Watson to Join Research Team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute </title>
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					IBM today announced it will provide a modified version an IBM Watson system to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, making it the first university to receive such a system. The arrival of the Watson system will enable new leading-edge research at Rensselaer, and afford faculty and students an opportunity to find new uses for Watson and deepen the systems’ cognitive capabilities.  The firsthand experience of working on the system will also better position Rensselaer students as future leaders in the areas of Big Data, analytics, and cognitive computing.
					
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					<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:01:53 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Reports 2012 Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Results</title>
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					IBM today announced fourth-quarter 2012 diluted earnings of $5.13 per share, compared with diluted earnings of $4.62 per share in the fourth quarter of 2011, an increase of 11 percent.  Operating (non-GAAP) diluted earnings were $5.39 per share, compared with operating diluted earnings of $4.71 per share in the fourth quarter of 2011, an increase of 14 percent.
					
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					<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:50:59 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Tops U.S. Patent List for 20th Consecutive Year</title>
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					IBM today announced that it received a record 6,478 patents in 2012 for inventions that will enable fundamental advancements across key domains including analytics, Big Data, cybersecurity, cloud,  mobile, social networking and software defined environments, as well as industry solutions for retail, banking, healthcare, and transportation. These patented inventions also will advance a major shift in computing, known as the era of cognitive systems. 
					
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					<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:16:08 GMT</pubDate>
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