- The contract also includes two additional one-year optional extensions. The announcement was made by Governor Sonny Perdue of Georgia at a news conference in Atlanta this afternoon.

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• IBM 1/6/2009 01:21pm
  International Business Machines Corp Spokesperson declines comment on rumors of possible 16K job cuts (4% of workforce)- Note websites yesterday speculated that IBM was considering the layoff of approx 4% of the workforce
  
• IBM 1/5/2009 07:06pm
  International Business Machines Corp CEO: Gov't IT investment estimated to create over 900K jobs- IBM is said to have made a presentation to Obama economic transition team in December
  
• HPQ 1/5/2009 06:11am
  Hewlett-Packard Co Shares of HPQ, IBM, AAPL resumed with buy rating at Merrill; INTC resumed neutral- HPQ price target $46 - IBM price target $105 - AAPL price target $110 - INTC price target $15
  
• 1/2/2009 06:01am
  SIA Semiconductor agency notes that sales fell in Nov to $20.8B v $23.1B y/y- ''Worldwide economic crisis is having an Impact on demand for Semiconductors' and not all segments of the industry are more...
  
• 7752.JP 1/1/2009 08:17am
  Ricoh Co LTD Enters into sales alliance with IBM - Nikkei Daily-Ricoh sees the sales alliance to generate JPY100B in new sales over the next two to three years. -The two companies will sell each others products more...
  

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