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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. It did not matter that Microsoft's software was notorious for having bugs or that IBM's was far cleaner. Palmisano wanted to expand IBM's IT services business to Chinese corporations and government agencies. In 1995, IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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The Tailwinds Behind Massive Growth of EV Charging

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The Policy Tailwind In the past few years, we have seen a groundswell of policy initiatives from governments around the world, all supporting electric vehicles and moving us toward cleaner transportation alternatives. Louis and Boston to Florida and Illinois. Already, the U.S.

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The raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?

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“There is no question that the price of lithium has been rising, which affects the cost of all lithium-ion batteries,” says Tim Poor, President of Advanced Cell Engineering , a Florida-based company that specializes in LFP and LM:FP chemistries. We’ve seen Chinese automakers be really ahead of the pack here, along with Tesla.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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The Chinese can promise to do this because they’re modernizing their economy. Moreover, while an eventual treaty would be likely to include a cap-and-trade system, under which the world’s bigger polluters would buy allowances from cleaner corporations or utilities, it is unclear how—or even if—it would work. Earlier post.)