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IBM to Divide into two companies at the end of 2021 

A large blue Large Blue graph showing how this will do the job. (charge: IBM) IBM announced this morning that the firm will be turning off a number of its lower-margin traces of business to a new business and focusing on higher-margin cloud solutions. Within an investor telephone, CEO Arvind Krishna confessed the movement has […]

One million text messages and betting on green hydrogen: A Q&A with Fortescue Metals CEO Elizabeth Gaines

Elizabeth Gaines, the CEO of Fortescue Metals Group—and No. 5 on Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year list in 2020— has had a career that’s about as varied as they come. The Australian executive began her career as a chartered accountant before moving on to work at an investment bank in London and other financial institutions. […]

2020 was not the year of 5G. 2021 won’t be either.

This is the web version of Data Sheet, a daily newsletter on the business of tech. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.  2020 will most certainly not go down in the history books as the year 5G became mainstream. To be fair, the newest, fastest, coolest wireless technology made some strides last […]