Episode 666 • • 1:47:00 - 1:55:55
666: Slavery Enrollment Month
IBM and Twitter Partnership for Watson Analytics
IBM announced a landmark partnership with Twitter to integrate the social media platform's "firehose" of data into IBM's Watson analytics. CEO Ginni Rometty described data as a "new natural resource." The hosts criticize the move as marketing jargon and discuss IBM's financial struggles, including their reliance on share buybacks to bolster earnings per share.