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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:40:16 GMT</pubDate>  
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					<title>Mother’s Day Online Shopping Up 15 Percent. Reports IBM
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					Mother’s Day online shopping grew 15 percent in the week leading up to Mother&#39;s Day, compared to the same time period last year. Spurred by mobile commerce, mobile percentage of sales reached 17 percent, according to IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark, a cloud-based analysis of the online retail market.
					
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					<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:40:16 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Moosejaw’s Mobile Business Growth Reaches New Heights with IBM 
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					IBM announced today that Moosejaw Mountaineering is using software from IBM’s Smarter Commerce initiative to expand its mobile commerce and social business strategy.  More than 30 percent of Moosejaw’s customers are shopping on the company&#39;s mobile site, up from 25 percent a year ago, with about 15 percent of sales coming from mobile devices and tablets.
					
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					<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 10:01:26 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Expands SmartCloud for Social Business with European Data Center</title>
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					IBM today announced that it will be extending its industry leadership with the opening of a European-based IBM SmartCloud for Social Business Data Center. The move aims to help business leaders, such as chief information officers, chief marketing officers, and chief human resource officers, begin their organization&#39;s transformation with the adoption of social business technology.  
					
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					<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:01:42 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Announces New Innovations to Help Organizations Benefit from the Next Natural Resource: Big Data</title>
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					IBM today announced new technologies designed to help companies and governments tackle Big Data by making it simpler, faster and more economical to analyze massive amounts of data. New data acceleration innovation results in as much as 25 times faster reporting and analytics.
					
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					<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:01:08 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Advances the Software Defined Environment with Solution that Boosts Overall Network Performance, Scalability, and Management</title>
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					IBM today strengthened its commitment to helping customers reap the benefits of the Software Defined Environment with the launch of new software that makes it easier for organizations to set up, manage and scale virtual networks for faster delivery of cloud, analytics, mobile and social business services. 
					
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					<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:01:34 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Delivers the Industry’s Most Advanced Social Experience for the Enterprise</title>
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					IBM today announced it is extending its social business platform with the industry’s first fully integrated social mail solution.  The move aims to simplify and accelerate social business adoption in the marketplace, providing employees with a single access point to all of their collaboration tools—social media, email, group activities, blogs and more.  
					
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					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:01:03 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Rent-A-Center Saves Millions through Cloud Procurement Innovation with Coupa and IBM Smarter Commerce
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					IBM and Coupa Software today announced that Rent-A-Center, Inc., the nation’s largest rent-to-own operator, has achieved millions in savings by optimizing and centralizing its purchasing process in the cloud.
					
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					<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:13:59 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>IBM Helps ING DIRECT Canada Connect with Mobile, Social Customers</title>
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					With today’s digital consumers embracing mobile, social and cloud computing, ING DIRECT Canada is applying a Smarter Commerce approach to consumer banking with IBM&#39;s help in meeting the rising expectations of its 1.8 million digital customers.  IBM today announced that it is working with the online bank to deliver innovative financial services that improve ING DIRECT’s customer experience including simplified account access across mobile devices and social media channels, voice recognition, and advanced security. 
					
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					<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:31:02 GMT</pubDate>
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