Thursday, August 1, 2013

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The U.S. stock market regulator has launched an investigation against IBM

The U.S. stock market regulator has launched an investigation against IBM

     IBM today announced that the U.S. Commission on Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation as to how the company generates sales of its cloud-based business solutions. The company reported it in its official documents submitted to the regulators.

 According to the company, the investigation became known in May of this year and, according to the company, it is still ongoing. Recall that IBM opened the direction of the cloud business in 2007 and spent in this segment of billions of dollars.

In June of this year, IBM announced the purchase of Softlayer Technologies, one of the largest independent ogrokom this naprvleniya. In July, IBM announced that its cloud revenue in the first half rose by almost 70%, and by 2015 it should reach 15 billion dollars. At IBM statement does not specify what exactly focused on the investigation.
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