Melinda French Gates' immense wealth began with unexpected advice. An IBM hiring manager urged her to join the then-small company Microsoft. This pivotal decision allowed her to rise quickly, becoming ...

Inside IBM’s main research center rises a maze of silver towers, each 22 feet tall. Through their vented flanks, you catch glimpses of blinking lights and the shadows of wires. The machine’s ...

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IBM is buying data infrastructure company Confluent for $11 billion in cash in a bid to bolster its data and automation products as ever more companies move their tech operations to the cloud and ...

There is an old saying: “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.” For decades, this phrase was more than a wry joke—it was a reflection of the near-mythic status of Big Blue in the world of business ...

IBM is acquiring a data streaming platform in a deal worth $11 billion. The iconic technology and consulting company announced the agreement with Confluent, Inc. on Monday. Confluent is an open-source ...

This year, about 45 percent of the revenues at Big Blue will come from software. But IBM wants to push this up to half of revenues and then onwards from there. IBM also wants to find the modern AI era ...

IBM has agreed to acquire cloud-native enterprise data streaming platform Confluent in a move designed to expand its portfolio of tools for building AI applications The company said Monday in a ...

IBM announced on Monday it is acquiring Confluent for $11 billion, sending shares of the data streaming platform up about 29% in morning trading. By midday trading, at the time of this writing, ...

Do you think we’re in an AI bubble? Even the experts who’ve predicted past crashes can’t seem to agree. And if you’re looking for a job right now, your opinion on all this could decide whether you get ...

IBM was early, you might argue too early, to AI. Now, CEO Arvind Krishna thinks big bets like Watsonx and quantum computing will start to pay off. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder ...

The originators of the Contagious Interview cyberattack campaign are stitching GitHub, Vercel, and NPM together into a development and delivery pipeline to drop malware. Researchers at Socket have ...