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IBM Names Virginia Rometty as New CEO
Virginia Rometty, IBM’s senior vice president and global sales leader, is slated to become the company’s next CEO and president, succeeding longtime leader Samuel Palmisano, who is retiring at the end of the year. As the new CEO, Rometty not only takes over one of the world’s largest and most important tech companies, but she…
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IBM, Apple: Stark Contrasts in CEO Succession
IBM and Apple, both hugely successful companies that are undergoing a change in top leadership, are a study in contrasts when looking at their CEOs and how they re replacing them, according to analysts. Apple for more than a decade was led by the charismatic Steve Jobs, who co-founded the company in the 1970s, was…
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IBM’s Rometty to Take Big Blue Into Next 100 Years as New CEO
Virginia “Ginni” Rometty taking the helm of IBM is no surprise. IBM held out that there were three to four front runners for the position, but Rometty was the clear leader. In fact, at IBM’s recent THINK Forum in New York, Sam Palmisano, IBM’s outgoing president and CEO, practically thrust Rometty on the scene as…
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Cisco Intros Managed Telepresence Service for SMBs
Cisco Systems is pushing its five-year-old telepresence business from the enterprise down into the small and medium business (SMB) market with the launch of new videoconferencing products and services. The biggest announcement is the launch of TelePresence Callway, a subscription-based telepresence service as part of the Cisco Collaboration Cloud. Hosted by Cisco as a managed…
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HP PSG Decision Coming Soon: DiFranco
Despite uncertainty surrounding the future path of HP’s Personal Systems Group, channel sales grew in the most recent quarter and solution providers will continue to play a key role in HP’s ongoing success, no matter what the company ultimately decides to do with PSG, a top executive told attendees at Synnex’s recent partner conference. “The…
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Steve Jobs’ Biography Reveals Apple’s Design Process
Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs offers a glimpse into the top-secret design lab for Apple products, in the process revealing a good deal about the working relationship between the former Apple CEO, who died earlier this month, and his chief designer, Jonathan Ive. Apple heavily restricts access to that lab, which according to…