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JANUARY 25, 2016

Irvine-based storage giant Western Digital and IBM said this morning that the two companies are in a patent acquisition and licensing deal, where WD will acquire more than 100 patent assets from IBM, and where the two will cross-license a number of patents. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

IBM and XPRIZE , the Culver City organization which runs major challenges to advance technology and help apply innovation to solving some of the world's biggest challenges, have announced a new IBM Watson AI PRIZE.

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JUNE 24, 2016

The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE , the $5M competition being run by Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , has opened up registrations to teams, and has published guidelines for the artificial intelligence competition.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Redland-based Esri , the developer of geographical information systems (GIS) software, said Friday that it has linked in with IBM's Netezza analytics appliances. According to the firm, its technology will be integrated into IBM's Netezza analytics appliances in a release scheduled for early 2012. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Riordan, Lewis & Haden Equity Partners (RLH Equity), has sold one of its portfolio companies, BlueWolf Group , to IBM. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Los Angeles-based Ampsy , the social content sharing and aggregation software developer led by Jeremy Gocke, has linked into IBM's Watson technology, saying it is using the machine learning technology as part of a new analytics offering. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 13, 2016

Tuesday, July 19, 2016 -- IBM Industry Hybrid Cloud Roadmap event. See [link] (more)

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Costa Mesa-based Emulex has deepened its ties with IBM, saying today that it is providing its OneConnect network adapters into five of IBM's enterprise-class and high volume servers. Emulex has recently been focusing on IBM systems, including three IBM specific products it announced in August. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 29, 2011

a developer of cryptographic software, said today with IBM that the two are in a joint development agreement. According to the two, they will implement Security First's cryptographic technology on IBM's wire speed processor technology, integrating the technology directly onto IBM's systems on a chip.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

San Diego-based Nirvanix , the provider of cloud storage services, has inked a deal with IBM , where IBM will use Nirvanix cloud storage technology as part of IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise storage services. Financial details of the licensing deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Camarillo-based analog and mixed signal semiconductor developer Semtech reported Monday that it is using IBM''s 32nm SOI technology for its 64GSPS ADC and DAC cores, aimed at used in high speed, microwave systems-on-a-chip (SoC) products. The analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog cores are used as part of microwave radio systems.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Costa Mesa-based Emulex is reporting today that its productings--including its 10Gb/s Ethernet Network Interface Cards and 16Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters--have been selected by IBM for its IBM Power Systems product line. The two announced a patent licensing deal in August, along with a design win in IBM's BladeCenter servers.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

La Jolla-based biomedical research nonprofit Scripps Research Institute and IBM said this morning that they are looking for the public's help, in volunteering to donate their computer time to help a new effort to cure malaria, funded by IBM Watson's $1M prize from Jeopardy! game show by IBM's Watson computer system.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Irvine-based WiSpry , a developer of tunable radio frequency (RF) semiconductors, said today that it is working with IBM in a joint development effort. According to WiSpry, it is working with IBM to develop MEMS process technology and to manufacture its tunable RF product roadmap. Details of the development deal were not disclosed.

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MAY 10, 2010

San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor is reporting this morning that it has tapped IBM as the foundry for its next generation RF CMOS semiconductors. IBM said the deal marks the first use of 200mm (8-inch) wafer processing for silicon-on-sapphire. Financial details of the arrangement were not disclosed.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 -- Deep Analytics: IBM Watson and Jeopardy. February of 2011 an IBM computer, called Watson, astonished audiences worldwide by soundly beating the two all-time greatest Jeopardy champions-at their own game. Was it only a game? Technology Council.In See [link] (more)

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 -- Neil Sahota, IBM Certified Consultant and Senior Project Manager, IBM - Global Business Services. Entrepreneurship Course, 2012 Guest Speaker Lectures, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine. Free and open to the public.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

La Jolla-based biomedical research nonprofit Scripps Research Institute and IBM said this morning that they are looking for the public's help, in volunteering to donate their computer time to help a new effort to cure malaria, funded by IBM Watson's $1M prize from Jeopardy! game show by IBM's Watson computer system.

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JULY 17, 2023

The honest truth is that I worked directly with him in the early days of Microsoft from my “safe” perch in big IBM, during the startup of the IBM PC. We in IBM didn’t get it at all, and we insisted on calling the IBM PC a “workstation” which in retrospect sounds like “work” for a bunch of robots at their “stations.”

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Irvine-based RFaxis , a developer of wireless semiconductors, announced Tuesday that it has switched to IBM Microelectronics for its fully integrated, single-chip, single-die RF front end integrated circuits. The firm said it is using IBM's BiCMOS process in Burlington, Vermont. RFaxis was previously using STMicro for the firm's fab.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Speaker: Neil Sahota, IBM Certified Consultant and Senior Project Manager, IBM - Global Business Services. Thursday, January 20, 2011 -- 2011 Entrepreneurship Speaker Series. UCI CalIt2. Contact Goran Matijasevic at goran@uci.edu.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Costa Mesa-based Emulex announced today that the firm has signed a multi-year, cross licensing patent deal with IBM. According to Emulex, the deal covers integrating the firm's OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter architecture with IBM's platforms, including its IBM System p, System x, and BladeCenter products.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

Aliso Viejo-based Corent Technology , the provider of software used to transform traditional, desktop and server software applications into cloud-based, software-as-a-service, reported today that it has deployed a home healthcare software suite on IBM's SmartCloud platform. Corent said it helped Clinical & Management Solutions, Inc.

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AUGUST 27, 2009

Costa Mesa-based storage adapter firm Emulex reported this morning that the firm has scored a design win with IBM, on a adapter for IBM's BladeCenter HS22 blade servers. The firm said that it will provide its technology for a 10Gb/s Ethernet NIC for IBM, as part of the Virtual Fabric Adapter CFFh for IBM BladeCenter.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

a manufacturer of analog and mixed signal semiconductors, said Wednesday that it has tapped IBM for a new, high performance ADC/DSP product. Camarillo-based Semtech Corp. ,

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AUGUST 17, 2009

San Diego-based EMN8 , a developer of self-service, restaurant kiosks, said Monday that the firm is in a agreement with IBM, where the two will jointly manufacture, market, and support its products. EMN8 said it will transition production of its OrderM8 4000 kiosk hardware to IBM. EMN8 is backed by GRP Partners, Sid R.

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JULY 22, 2009

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing management software firm RightScale is linking its products into IBM DB2, one of the major enterprise database software packages, the firm said today. RightScale said it will support creating, managing, and automating IBM DB2 Express-C on such services as Amazon EC2.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mojix , a developer of RFID readers, reported earlier this week that it has inked a distribution agreement with IBM in Japan.

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OCTOBER 31, 2020

The honest truth is that I worked directly with him in the early days of Microsoft from my “safe” perch in big IBM, during the startup of the IBM PC. We in IBM didn’t get it at all, and we insisted on calling the IBM PC a “workstation” which in retrospect sounds like “work” for a bunch of robots at their “stations.”

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JUNE 22, 2016

So far, the story of IBM Watson Health has been mostly about growth and potential. So is the scope of the new IBM collaboration, which spans cancer (breast, lung, and others), eye health, diabetes, brain disease, and cardiovascular disease. Today, it’s more about action. If that all sounds optimistic, well, of course it is.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

It has been a big summer for developers ready to do a deep dive into open source projects and the Internet of Things (IoT) with IBM’s announcement of two new communities created in its developer-centric hub developerWorks , aimed at giving developers the perfect sandbox to play in.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

My introduction to startups really came when I first worked in IBM with Philip Donald Estridge back in 1981. Known as Don Estridge, he led development of the original IBM Personal Computer, and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC" He’s gone now, but I still remember him fondly. mHz, now 3.0 Marty Zwilling.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. This facilitates technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as positioning IBM for future growth. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

She also has served at Azalea Health, Ingenious Med, Greenway Health, Equifax, and IBM. Hackney was most recently Chief Marketing Officer at FairWarning, which was recently acquired by Imprivata. The company said Hackney will be based in Atlanta.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The company's CEO, Jeff Drake, was a founder at Access360 (acquired by IBM), and also served at IBM, Akana, and ServiceMesh. The company's President, Jeff Curie, was also an executive at Access360, IBM, and SupplyFrame.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Recently IBM combined forces with DevPost to put out the call for developer/heroes to solve some of the world’s most dramatic and important problems with its worldwide hacker contest for good called Bluemixathon: Operation Rescue and Recovery. The submission deadline is November 11th, so register today and get started!

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