Margaret Warner discusses IBM's sale of its personal computer business to one of China's top PC makers with a technology expert and a China analyst. The company that pioneered the personal computer is ...

We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built the IBM PC. The titular character ...

IBM, which gave legitimacy to the personal computer business in the 1980s, is said to be negotiating the sale of its PC unit in a move that could reshape the industry. The company is negotiating with ...

Andrew D. MagerWeb AssistantIBM said in a public announcement Friday, it would pull out of the personal computer business that it founded in 1911. The company is discussing a sale with Lenovo Group, ...

On its face, the merger creates the third-largest PC business in the world, with approximately $12 billion in 2003 revenue and an 8 percent market share. The risk for Lenovo is that it might not add ...

Donkey Kong had only just started lobbing barrels at a chunky Mario as he climbed up wonky ladders, Ronald Regan had recently taken over the white house, and the very first Duran Duran album had just ...

This interview appeared in the first issue of PC Magazine in early 1982. Our then-Publisher David Bunnell spoke with a young Bill Gates about Microsoft's contributions to the first IBM PC. How was IBM ...

A sale of IBM's PC unit would be the latest example of a move toward consolidation as the market reaches maturity. A third of today's top 10 manufacturers could exit the PC business by 2007, according ...

IBM's decision to sell its PC business to Lenovo underscores the fact that most companies cannot generate steady profits selling PCs Perhaps it isn’t quite as surprising as if Ford Motor Co. suddenly ...

IBM will pour US$3 billion into computing and chip materials research over the next five years, as it rethinks computer design and looks to a future that may not involve silicon chips. The computer ...