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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. Just how revolutionary was that for IBM? And the marketplace also began to compete based on price.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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It's buried deep in documents like PubMed articles and patent filings. That looks like an early attempt at finding dark data at this corporate level. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch. And the big challenge there is that a lot of the data is contained, not in beautifully homogeneous, joinable, relatable databases.