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Re:The Decline and Fall of IBM by missserenity on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @05:51PM (#7848622)
Each of these companies had huge scandals related to accounting fraud. Are you assuming the same is the case with IBM?
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Re:The Decline and Fall of IBM by hga on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @06:32PM (#7848838)
Whenever you see many people (not just this author) talk about a company's "financial engineering" you should be concerned they might cross that line; couple that with an explicit pledge to double earnings/share to $20 by 2015 and the danger should be apparent.
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Re:The Decline and Fall of IBM by jbooth on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @08:34PM (#7849416)
.. and you're talking about 2010-2014, a period when the market as a whole went up by about 50%, and pointing to IBM as a success story?
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