Mississippi Business Journal » office automation http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:16:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 IBM buying Netezza for $1.7B http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/09/20/ibm-buying-netezza-for-17b/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ibm-buying-netezza-for-17b http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/09/20/ibm-buying-netezza-for-17b/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:28:59 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=30617 NEW YORK — IBM said today it has agreed to pay $1.7 billion for Netezza Corp., a company that helps businesses sort through data on corporate servers. Netezza’s software and hardware systems are designed to help companies use data about their businesses to make strategic decisions. The personnel department of a company, for instance, could [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/09/20/ibm-buying-netezza-for-17b/feed/ 0 Hewlett-Packard continues shopping spree http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/09/13/hewlett-packard-continues-shopping-spree/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hewlett-packard-continues-shopping-spree http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/09/13/hewlett-packard-continues-shopping-spree/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:15:25 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=30256 NEW YORK — Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to buy the security software provider ArcSight for about $1.5 billion, the company said today as it extends a recent spree of acquisitions. The deal is part of a strategy begun under former CEO Mark Hurd, with the company looking to grow outside the low-margin personal computer market. [...]

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