{"id":6055,"date":"2013-02-22T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2550607"},"modified":"2013-02-22T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:02:00","slug":"ibm-picks-mobile-for-its-next-big-growth-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-picks-mobile-for-its-next-big-growth-play\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Picks Mobile for Its Next Big Growth Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pity IBM won\u2019t say what it spent on mobile last year sans acquisitions, but whatever it was it\u2019s going to double it this year under a big new \u201c second wave\u201d initiative decreed by its new CEO Ginni Rometty, who has apparently sensed an inflection point that will grow Blue by a few billion dollars.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s Ginni\u2019s first big initiative, and Mike Riegel, IBM\u2019s VP in charge of mobile solutions, has been heard to say that the rise of mobile connectivity and e-commerce is \u201cbigger than the web.\u201d<br \/>\nThat makes the new initiative the equal of IBM\u2019s famous push into analytics and the cloud.<br \/>\nSo, the company is mustering its troops and its 270 mobile patents and its R&#038;D people behind the effort and has carved a new MobileFirst platform out of the products and services bought in by its 10 acquisitions in mobile that it will hawk. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2550607\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pity IBM won\u2019t say what it spent on mobile last year sans acquisitions, but whatever it was it\u2019s going to double it this year under a big new \u201c second wave\u201d initiative decreed by its new CEO Ginni Rometty, who has apparently sensed an inflectio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}