While nobody at IBM would dispute that its former head of M&A, David Johnson, was putting in some serious hours, they are taking issue with the fact that he spent a good deal of that time preparing to launch a...

Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner is not making any new friends on trading desks. Gerstner bemoans Wall St.'s focus on short term trading rewards but goes one step further and offers a modest proposal to solve the problem. In his...

And you thought antitrust had no surprises left in it. Far from it. Even the threat of extended reviews (six to nine months in this case) is still enough to blow a chilly breeze over the swollen nether regions of...

In case you missed it earlier today, not everyone is taking this recession thing laying down. International Business Machines Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are negotiating a takeover that values Sun at $9 to $10 a share, people familiar with...