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International Business Machines will offer its Watson technology, which beat humans in "Jeopardy!," as a building block for startup companies making business software.

More than 600 people are expected to attend the event which features high-profile speakers such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell and International Business Machines Chief Executive Virginia Rometty as well as a chance for about 160 startups to meet with venture firms at what is billed as the world's largest office hours.

's stock had its "buy" rating restated by equities researchers at TheStreet in a report issued on Tuesday, Stock Ratings Network reports.

The S&P 500 broke a five-day string of record closing highs on Thursday, ending a fairly volatile session lower as recent momentum lost steam and Apple shares declined.

The S&P 500 closed at an all-time high for a fifth day on Wednesday in a broad rally that keeps surprising investors with its longevity and resilience.

With little in the way of economic data for investors to chew on, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is trading just below breakeven, as bulls take a breather from last week's record-setting run .

's stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by research analysts at TheStreet in a report released on Friday, AnalystRatingsNetwork reports.

By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent developed by six co-inventors for a "laser ablation for integrated circuit fabrication." The co-inventors are Bing Dang, Chappaqua, N.Y., John Knickerbocker, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Aparna Prabhakar, North White Plains, ... (more)

By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 22 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent developed by Hongxia Jin, San Jose, Calif., and Jeffrey Bruce Lotspiech, Henderson, Nev., for a "security classes in a media key block." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ... (more)

Analytics, Smarter Planet, IBM cloud and other new initiatives have carried International Business Machines, for the past few quarters and this continued in Q1 2013 as well.