Word: ibm
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...things were expected to happen. After all, the company had invented the transistor, the basic building block of modern computers, and it had built the nation's telephone system, which is essentially one vast computer network. Industry analysts predicted that AT&T one day would even challenge IBM for market supremacy. The government, which had barred Ma Bell from the business until the phone monopoly was broken in 1984, fretted that it might be opening the way for the giant (1989 revenues: $36.11 billion) to dominate the computer industry. But instead of conquering the market, AT&T has suffered...
Several computer manufacturers, including Apple and IBM, have taken an interest in Harvard's plans to expand its information technology programs, and have made large gifts to the Business School and other faculties, the overseer said...
...IBM executive John A. Armstrong '56 and Michael Crichton '64, author of the science fiction novel The Andromeda Strain, which described high-tech efforts to battle a mutating extraterrestrial virus, showed a particular interest in the use of computers for teaching, one overseer said...
Such potential has made the materials business one of the most hotly contested high-tech fields. Hundreds of companies, from IBM to Germany's Daimler-Benz to Japan's Sony, are investing heavily to come up with the next breakthroughs. Advanced-material sales, which will top $2 billion this year, are expected to reach $20 billion by the year 2000 as research efforts of the past decade start paying big dividends in the form of new products...
...marriage seemed formidable. To create a high-tech giant that could challenge IBM, former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal welded computer also-rans Burroughs and Sperry in 1986 to create Unisys Corp. But after a fast start, Unisys has suffered from lagging technology and sagging military spending. With the company in turmoil, Blumenthal, 64, retired as chairman last week to concentrate on his role as a partner in the Lazard Freres investment-banking firm. He had stepped down as chief executive when he joined Lazard last April...