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This updated list includes the 4 biggest IBM related topic forums for the 4 biggest discussion platforms. Lists are in order starting with IBM, then ibmpension, then ibmretiree, then OneExchangeIBM. *1. Yahoo:* ????groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/IBM/info ????groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ibmpension/info ????groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ibmretiree/info ????groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/OneExchangeIBM/info *2. Facebook:* ????facebook.com/IBM/ and facebook.com/groups/1787261451529652/ ????facebook.com/groups/ibmpension/ and facebook.com/ibmpension ????facebook.com/groups/ibmretiree/ and facebook.com/ibmretiree/ and facebook.com/groups/62822320855/ ????facebook.com/groups/OneExchangeIBM/ and facebook.com/OneExchangeIBM/ *3. 开云体育:* ????groups.io/g/IBM ????groups.io/g/ibmpension ????groups.io/g/ibmretiree ????groups.io/g/OneExchangeIBM *4. Linkedin:* ????linkedin.com/company/IBM and linkedin.com/groups/12011863 ????linkedin.com/groups/12010041 ????linkedin.com/groups/12011053 and linkedin.com/groups/1712 ????linkedin.com/groups/11900630

Due to issues with very large volumes of spam, the groups.io organization made a change to their policies. Effective on October 7, new members are moderated and will be unmoderated after 1 approved message. What this means is that the first time a new member posts to this group, a moderator will have to approve that post. Once the post is approved, they will be unmoderated and will be able to post additional messages without requiring approval.

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http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Judge-tosses-suits-over-IBM-sale-to-9209767.php By Larry Rulison Updated 9:18?am, Thursday, September 8, 2016 MALTA — IBM won a major legal victory Wednesday when a federal judge tossed two lawsuits that claimed the company botched its 2015 sale of its computer chip business to GlobalFoundries. The sale, in which IBM paid GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion to take over its failing microelectronics manufacturing unit, helped to boslter the size and manufacturing prowess of GlobalFoundries, which employs 3,000 people at its Fab 8 computer chip factory in Saratoga County. But the lawsuit alleged that for many years, IBM executives had concealed from view just how much money its chip business was losing and had overstated its value in regulatory filings up until its October 2014 announcement that it had struck a deal with GlobalFoundries to take over the business as well as its two chip "fabs" in East Fishkill in Dutchess County and Essex Junction, Vt. IBM ended up writing off billions of dollars from the sale, even though it had previously valued the business at $2.4 billion. Shares of IBM fell nearly 20 percent on Oct. 20, 2014, the day that the sale to GlobalFondries was announced. The lawsuits had been brought by current and former IBMers and a union pension fund in U.S. District Court in Manhattan claiming that the drop in IBM stock hurt retirement funds that held IBM stock. GlobalFoundries ended up hiring hundreds of former IBMers as part of the deal, especially top engineers with knowledge of IBM's manufacturing process. IBM still has a large employee base at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, where IBM is still involved in cutting edge chip research. As part of the sale, IBM signed a 10 year manufacturing contract with GlobalFoundries to make the chips it had previously been making in East Fishkill and Vermont. The sale was key to efforts by IBM to boost its profits. The IBM chip business lost $700 million in 2013 and similar results were expected in 2014 when the sale was announced. The lawsuits reveal that GlobalFoundries was not the only company that IBM had approached for the deal. Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. were also courted, according to one of the suits.

I posted the following message on the beta group awaiting approval by the moderators: “I have been following this group for quite a while but just joined so I could ask a question. Is there a projection for when the beta period for groups.io will end? I believe there are quite a few Yahoo users who are planning to move their activity here but who are waiting for the time when groups.io is out of beta test." I am curious to know how many members here are Yahoo users who are planning to move their activity here but who are waiting for the time when groups.io is out of beta test.

Following are the results of thePreferred Features Poll so far:?Listens to suggestions…….21.3%Can mute threads & users..20.8%Users can edit posts………20.4%Message view options…….17.4%All other votes…………..….20%?If you have notalready done so, I invite you to register your vote at: /g/ibmpension/message/831

Followingare the results of the Platform Preference poll so far: 开云体育………55%Facebook………25%Yahoogroups....14%GoogleGroups....6% If youhave not already done so, I invite you to register your vote at: /g/ibmpension/message/828

https://www.facebook.com/watchingIBM http://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/team-building-and-staffing/ibm-rolls-out-new-job-cutting-plan-in-the-netherlands/d/d-id/1326173 According to a leaked company memo, IBM is imposing involuntary job cutsin the Netherlands for the first time. Does the move serve as a template forBig Blue to impose forced layoffs in regions where local labor laws have madeit difficult to impose mandatory cuts? IBM issued a company memo this week stating it would institute involuntaryjob cuts for the first time in the Netherlands, adopting a new and permanentworkforce reduction strategy in the region. The effects could be far reaching. Lee Conrad, a former IBM employee who oversees?Watching IBM, a Facebookpage that tracks Big Blue's workforce cuts, told InformationWeek the move mayserve as a template?for Big Blue to impose?forced layoffs in regions where local labor laws have madeit difficult to impose mandatory cuts. IBM Netherlands, for example, previouslywas only subject to voluntary job cuts, according to Conrad. "In many of the European countries, the cuts historically have beenvoluntary. This is because of the existence of works councils and unions insideIBM. Labor laws are also more favorable to workers," said Conrad, whopreviously oversaw the now defunct union organizing effort called Alliance@IBM. He added IBM's effort to spread this practice across Europe and otherregions will likely increase. "IBM wants to rid itself of more employees than will volunteer toleave," Conrad said in our interview. "IBM also wants to terminateworkers in selective areas and not rely on volunteers. IBM is also sheddingbusiness units in countries like Germany and Italy and either selling them toother companies or moving them to low-cost countries like India or countries inEastern Europe." An IBM spokesman, while not specifically addressing the job cuts in theNetherlands, told InformationWeek, "As reported earlier this year, IBM istransforming its business to lead in a new era of cognitive and cloud computing. To this end, IBMcurrently has more than 25,000 open positions, many in these key skills areas.If IBM meets its hiring goals, we expect to end the year with around the samenumber of employees [as] at (year-end) 2015." IBM had 377,757 employees at the end of 2015, according to its annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.That is down from the 379,592 employees it had in 2014, according to its SECfiling.

Following are the resultsof the Platform Preference Poll so far. 开云体育…..…268 Facebook……...105 Yahoogroups….67 Google Groups..29 ? You can still vote or change your original vote at: /g/ibmpension/message/828

I voted for Facebook because I am starting to like how Facebook handles groups. I see from this poll that there are quite a few people that also prefer it.

I voted for "Listens to suggestions." If that is true, it is a good thing. Yahoo certainly does not do this. ?I am not sure why the Subject field is blank. I was replying to the Preferred features poll, so I would have thought that it would have auto-filled that field. Now editing this post, but it will not let me edit the Subject field.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-layoffs-continue-1463784692?mod=WSJ_TechWSJD_NeedToKnow Company has said it’s restructuring workforce to retool for cloud servicesand data analysis By Robert McMillan May 20, 2016 6:51 p.m. ET International Business Machines Corp. this week?quietly laid offemployees, continuing a wave of job cuts the company announced in April. IBM declined to say how many jobs would be cut overall. The total layoffscould affect more than 14,000 jobs, according to an estimate by StanfordBernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi. The job cuts come after four straight years of declining revenues as therise of cloud computing threatens its software and services business. IBM hassaid it would restructure its workforce to retool for cloud services and dataanalysis, and could hire an equal number of new employees by the end of theyear. The company said on Friday it had more than 20,000 open positions. Twoemployees reached?Friday?said that IBM’s internal job-search toollisted between 7,000 and 8,000 open positions.IBM’s last round of layoffs, which affected less than 5,000 employees, camein March. “Their initiatives aren’t going as fast as they’d like them to and it’saffecting their revenue more than they thought,” said one IBM employee affectedby this week’s layoffs who requested anonymity because the employee is stillwith the company. This week’s cuts affected workers in the Research Triangle of North Carolina;New York City; Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; and Boulder, Colo. Some positions are beingmoved to places like India and Costa Rica, according to workers affected bythis week’s cuts. Earlier in the week, IBM said it would closeits 70-acre Somers, N.Y., campus and move those jobs to a facility in NorthCastle, New York. The company’s total workforce was 377,757 at the end of 2015.

?http://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-shutters-somers-new-york-campus-1463523135 By Robert McMillan ?May 17, 2016 6:12 p.m. ET ?International Business Machines Corp.? is closing its Somers, NewYork, campus, home to approximately 2,000 employees in the company’s systemsand software divisions.?Workers will be relocated by March 2017 to an IBMfacility in nearby North Castle, New York, which is being modernized, said IBMspokesman Edward Barbini, Big Blue plans to sell the 700-acre Somers property,he said.?The Somers campus was built to accommodate 2,700 workers.It was designed by architect I.M. Pei and completed in 1989.?IBM is struggling with the contraction of its traditionalsoftware and services businesses and trying to reinvent itself as a seller ofcloud computing and artificial intelligence services. It has reported fourconsecutive years of quarterly revenue declines as it has sold off its?Intel -based server and chip-making businesses.?The company has laid off 14,000 employees in the past fewmonths, by one analyst’s estimate. Meanwhile, it has spent $9 billion onacquisitions in the past year and is looking to hire new employees in growingbusinesses such as cloud computing, security, and data analytics.?IBM had 378,000 employees at the end of 2015.?“The bulk of our transformation is really around skillsand shifting skills to these new areas,” IBM Chief Financial Officer MartinSchroeter said in an interview last month. “Our overall employment could endthe year relatively flat to what we have today,” he said.?News of the Somers closure was firstreported by The Somers Record.

IBM Net, Sales Slide as Turnaround Proves Elusive? | | | | | | | | | | | IBM Net, Sales Slide as Turnaround Proves Elusive By Robert McMillan International Business Machines’ Virginia Rometty is still hunting for a turnaround more than four years into he... | | | | By Robert McMillan Updated April 18, 2016 5:34 p.m. ET International BusinessMachines Corp. ’sVirginia Rometty is still looking for a sales turnaround more than four yearsinto her tenure as chief executive. ?The Armonk, N.Y., company on Mondayreported first-quarter revenue of $18.68 billion, down 4.6% as the company’sproducts have become increasingly under threat by the move to computingservices delivered over the Internet. The company has now posted revenuedeclines for four years straight.?The computing giant said that netincome fell 13.5% to $2.01 billion, or $2.09 a share. Excluding charges, profitwas $2.35 a share. Analysts had expected adjusted earnings for the March 31-endedquarter, of $2.09 a share, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters. Revenuecame in above Wall Street’s expectation of $18.29 billion.?Shares fell more than 4% inafter-hours trading on Monday after finishing up 81 cents at $152.53 in 4 p.m.New York Stock Exchange trading. ?For Ms. Rometty, the reinvented IBMis a company that is focused on high-growth businesses—delivering “cloud”computing services over the Internet and building new products that can analyzemountains of data and extract useful insights.?But the going has been tough. IBM hasn’t beenable to solve its key problem: revenues are shrinking faster than its newbusinesses are growing, and the company has laid off tens of thousands ofemployees over the past year, even as it has hired tens of thousands of newemployees in these new businesses. IBM calls these new businesses “strategicimperatives,” and said Monday that they grew 14% from the year-earlier period,reaching $29.8 billion. They now account for 37% of IBM’s revenue. ?“If the strategic imperatives are reallyworking, then the company’s growth rate should be improving. The evidence sofar has suggested that has not happened,” said Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst atSanford C. Bernstein & Co. in an interview ahead of Monday’s earningsrelease.?During the latest quarter, IBM reported thatrevenue from its strategic imperatives grew 17% excluding currency impacts,including cloud revenue growth of 36% and a 9% increase in analytics revenue. Systems revenue, which includes systemshardware and operating systems software, declined 21% excluding currencyimpacts. Global business services revenue, which includes consulting, globalprocess services and application management, declined 2.3%, also excludingcurrency impacts. ?IBM also affirmed its 2016 outlook. ?IBM shares have dropped by 17% since Ms.Rometty took over in January 2012; The S&P 500 index is up 65% during thesame period.?As about two-thirds of IBM’s sales happenoutside of the U.S., IBM benefited from a softening U.S. dollar. The company isalso starting to see new revenues from the billions of dollars in acquisitionsit made over the past year, a period when IBM bought close to 20 companies,including Merge Healthcare Inc., a medical technology company, cloud storagecompany Cleversafe Inc. and Weather Company’s digital assets.

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A new poll has been created: In the Platform Preference Poll, we are seeing about 20% that prefer Yahoo groups and about 80% that prefer 开云体育. Please share what influenced your preference. What features of the 开云体育 platform do you like better than the Yahoo groups platform? Choose one or more answers. 1. Polls 2. Message view options 3. List of Top Posters 4. Subgroups 5. Hashtags 6. Other (Please share other reasons for your preference in a post.) 7. Listens to suggestions 8. Can mute threads & users 9. Users can edit posts Vote Now: /g/ibmpension/vote?pollid=93

Thanks to the members here who have voted in the Platform Preference poll so far. If you have not already done so, I invite you to register your vote at: ? /g/ibmpension/message/828 ? We currently have 20.4% of the votes for Yahoo groups and 79.6% votes for 开云体育. ? Note that the vote is anonymous.

I voted Other in the poll. I like the feature of 开云体育 that allows editing of posts. Yahoo does not allow editing of posts.

Thanks to the members here who have voted in the PlatformPreference poll so far. If you have not already done so, I invite you toregister your vote at:/g/ibmpension/message/828 We currently have 12 votes for Yahoo groups and 50 votes for开云体育. Note that the vote is anonymous.