Word: ibm
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...things could stop Les Franklin. Born into poverty, he was offered an athletic scholarship, got a business degree and became a key executive for IBM in Boulder, Colo. He bought a dream home in a mostly white, gated community, worked for the Governor and even ran for Congress. In 1990 tragedy struck, when his 16-year-old son Shaka shot himself to death. But Franklin did not let grief paralyze him. He founded the Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, dedicated to the prevention of youth suicide. Through it, Franklin, 61, became an even more prominent presence in Colorado. His fund...
...that his father, with whom he has no ties, once attempted to kill himself, but it never registered until now. Depression never held back Les Franklin during his climb out of poverty. "Did Jamon have it hard?" he asks rhetorically. "Come on, look at this house! I was an IBM executive! And now I'm concerned about affluent black kids. There are the same patterns you see in the white community; they have more idle time, more time to think. I don't know too many gang members who kill themselves. They kill...
Other new-economy players are also beginning to see the power merchant as a prize partner. IBM and AOL have joined with Enron to form the New Power Co. (TNPC), an independent start-up that will offer pricing schemes and a choice of power and gas service for residential and small-business customers. Enron provides the electricity; AOL enables customers to buy it via the Web; and IBM takes care of the billing. "It's ludicrous that we're in the 21st century, and you still have people jumping over fences to read meters," says Skilling, pointing out that...
...PENGUIN THAT ROARED Linux, the little operating system that could, is catching up with big siblings Windows and Macintosh. Last week high-tech heavyweights IBM and Dell announced new deals to sell Linux servers, and a host of other firms declared their support for Gnome, a Windows-like user interface for Linux. Unlike its stuffier competitors, Linux is free, and was developed collaboratively by an international community of hackers. Also unlike its competitors, it has a funky penguin as a mascot...
...Open founder Rick Ryan, who usually works on NBA marketing deals with such clients as IBM, first played mountain golf as a goof when he attended college in Vermont. Now he dreams of bringing it to the Tiger Woods generation--and incidentally bringing new summer business to America's 441 ski resorts. "We could," he says, "be creating a whole new game...