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Microsoft Suffers While Big Blue Blows It Out!

Last week, Microsoft announced that its profits fell and that the ax will therefore fall on 5,000 workers .

So, were rivals hit by the economic tsunami, as well? Not all . IBM had a terrific quarter with profits up 12 percent to a tidy $4.4 billion. (While Redmond's profits were down, it still raked in an impressive $4.1 billion, and did so on far less revenue than Big Blue).

Posted by Doug Barney on January 26, 2009


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