Zhou Ziming, general manager of the Outsourcing Department of IBM (IBM) Greater China, has disclosed to local media that IBM will soon expand more services in Japan, South Korea and Greater China with Chengdu as an operations base and help from a new electronic invoicing system.

Lenovo will drop the IBM brand name from its products before the official 2010 cutoff date, the Wall Street Journal reported. In what is being seen as a sign that the Chinese PC maker is ready to stand on its own, the IBM logo will not appear on new products and the IBM ThinkPads it inherited will be rebranded Lenovo ThinkPads. Lenovo's results for the July-September period suggest that the company has …

Lenovo will drop the IBM brand name from its products before the official 2010 cutoff date, the Wall Street Journal reported. In what is being seen as a sign that the Chinese PC maker is ready to stand on its own, the IBM logo will not appear on new products and the IBM ThinkPads it inherited will be rebranded Lenovo ThinkPads. Lenovo's results for the July-September period suggest that the company has …

Lenovo put forward further proof that it is making a success of its 2005 purchase of IBM's PC unit as it reported a sharp increase in quarterly profits and sales

… $96 a barrel. Bellwether tech stocks in the red included Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp.. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index fell more than 40 points to 2,818, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index and the Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index also lost ground.

IBM bolstered its line of storage products and services Wednesday by acquiring NovusCG

… published Oct. 19 contained an incorrect reference to the institution that is partnering with IBM (TICKER:IBM) on micro-finance technology. It is the Grameen Foundation.

… companies from abroad, 20 of which are ranked within the world’s top 200 high-tech businesses. IBM, Microsoft, HP, Agilent Technologies, 3COM, Oracle, Cisco, Motorola, P&G, Lucent Bell Labs, ABB, Novo Nordisk, MITSUBISHI, Mitsui & Co., NEC, NTT Data, Fujisu, Sumitomo, etc are all operating successfully in the HSP.
It’s a good move for Haier. It brings them into the heart of the marketplace where competitors, partners, investors, and distributors interact. Qingdao may …

… purchases of energy and mineral resources are one thing. But only Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s PC business represents the private sectors play in global M&As. A relatively paltry US$1 billion deal. Er…that’s it. Compare with just one of India’s deals - Mittal’s acquisition of Arcelor (US$36 billion). Yet everyone talks up China. The Chinese private sector is just not there.

The duo's strong third-quarter results indicate the sector hasn't been hurt by housing's troubles or the credit crunch. But can it last? …

IBM (IBM) and Shenzhen Skybility Technology Company have held a ceremony to celebrate the establishment of the first domestic IBM Linux On System z Support Center and the landing of China's first Linux on System z in Shenzhen.

… Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson adding to the confusion. Yet technology will rule the day, with IBM and Intel reporting, along with the end of the 100-day transformation at Yahoo.

… mixed early trading performance Tuesday ahead of earnings reports from sector giants Intel Corp., IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc., all due after the market close.

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… department needs to rustle through an audit from two years ago to find the original invoice.
And IBM? For those of you who have read our daily tech news website at ChinaTechNews.com since we started in 1999, you might remember some problems we had with IBM in 2000 and 2001. It got so horrendously bad that we had meetings with a VP in their Beijing offices; I personally emailed their former Chairman Lou Gerstner in Armonk, New York a few times; we contacted the Better Business Bureau in …