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IBM is a financial engineering firm, not a technology company anymore: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/the-truth-hidden-by-ibms-buybacks/?_r=0 http://dea
by tdicola 11y ago
IBM is a financial engineering firm, not a technology company anymore: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/the-truth-hidden-by-ibms-buybacks/?_r=0 http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/the-truth-hidden-by-i...
- ahoff 11y agoIf you only care about stock price, and even then no. IBM is a large company that does a lot. They put more money and people towards pure tech than most firms, especially in places like IBM Research.
- devy 11y agoWhat people remember them the most, is their R&D. The beat Intel to create the first 7nm chip process recently.
- derwiki 11y agoThe Almaden Research Center is still a top-notch research facility.
- timelined 11y agoBetween Alamaden (San Jose) and Yorktown Heights (NY) in the US, IBM is one of the last few industrial basic sciences/engineering labs in the US, resembling Bell Labs and Xerox PARC from a few decades ago.