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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by roymurdock on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:16PM (#10466610)
To add: they recently announced an investment of $3bn over 4 years in the IoT division, which will probably be focused mostly on analytics & will somehow tie in with Watson & Bluemix, which are the strongest pieces in their portfolio at the moment. [1]

They also broke out an additional "Education" unit within the IoT business unit, ostensibly to compete with PTC Thingworx, and Intel+Arduino, Raspberry Pi etc. in the student/teacher/maker market. [2]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ibms-3-billion-investment...

[2] https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47660.wss

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Re:IBM to Acquire the Weather Company by sanmon3186 on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:45AM (#10469967)
To add further, IBM's biggest revenue source is not technology and software, but its IT/business services & consulting wing which is no different than most IT outsourcing companies in the world. Of course their products do influence some of the work done by these.
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