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Circle announced it has acquired more than 680 blockchain patent families and nearly 1,000 issued patents from IBM's blockchain portfolio.

IBM has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, a private quantum computing research lab jointly owned by Boeing Co and General Motors, the ‌company said on Thursday, adding a second pillar to IBM's quantum computing efforts. IBM has been racing ‌against Alphabet's Google, Microsoft and others to create practical quantum machines that can crack problems that would take conventional computers thousands ​of years to solve. In May, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said it would award $1 billion to IBM to set up a new company called Anderon in New Albany, New York, to serve as a chip factory for U.S. quantum computing firms.

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Infleqtion received three Department of Energy research projects and led gains among the companies tied to the initiative.

Tesla, Alphabet, IBM, Texas Instruments, and Intel headline a pivotal earnings week as weakening technical signals suggest the tech rally may need time to consolidate.

Wall Street is coming into a busy week of earnings with high expectations.

US stock futures pointed higher on Monday as attention turned to a bumper week of Big Tech earnings, even with the US-Iran conflict grinding into its tenth day. Dow futures edged up 0.2%, S&P 500 contracts added 0.3%, and the Nasdaq-100 popped 0.7%, a welcome bounce after a bruising week...

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Stocks looked set to rise again on Wednesday, building on gains from the previous session that were powered by a solid start to the second-quarter earnings season and cooler-than-expected inflation data. Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.4%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 81 points, or 0.2%.

On July 14, 2026, cooling consumer prices sparked a broad tech rebound.

Analysts with Bank of America Securities upped their price target for shares of the blue-chip tech stock.

IBM (IBM) hasn’t built a commercial computer chip of its own in nearly a decade. On Thursday, June 25, the company said its research labs had cracked something the rest of the chip industry hasn’t managed yet. The breakthrough has nothing to do with software, and everything to do with one tiny ...

Investing.com -- International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) shares jumped about 5% in premarket trading Thursday after the company's announcement of a sub-1 nanometer chip technology breakthrough.

International Business Machines (IBM) picked up two separate catalysts within roughly a day this week, and only one came from a stock analyst. JPMorgan upgraded IBM (IBM) to Overweight on Tuesday and raised its price target to $291 from $270, a call built entirely on the company’s software ...

Federal Orders Renew Momentum Across the Quantum SectorQuantum-computing stocks moved higher in after-hours trading on Monday after U. S.

U.S. stocks rose in early Thursday trading, rebounding from the previous session’s Fed-driven selloff as falling oil prices and optimism surrounding the Iran peace deal boosted investor sentiment.

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Stocks sold off sharply to end the week with money moving out of technology stocks and into many of the Dow components; inflation fears are rising.

By Medha Singh and Twesha Dikshit June 3 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Dow were poised to open lower on Wednesday, as a fresh Middle East flare-up pushed oil prices higher and cast doubt on a quick

Investing.com -- The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF saw retail investors pour in a record $46 million on Monday.

The largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracking U.S. software stocks clocked the biggest single-day buy-in by retail investors ‌on record on Monday, data from Vanda Research showed. Software ‌stocks have largely recovered their losses from earlier this year when fears of ​industry-wide disruptions due to the rise of AI gripped the sector, though volatility still persists. Mom-and-pop traders bought stock worth a net $46 million in the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF on Monday, surpassing ‌the previous single-day ⁠record by roughly 40%, as per Vanda.

Investing.com -- IBM shares climbed about 9% on Monday after Barclays initiated coverage of the technology company with an Overweight rating, citing the company's evolution into a software-focused business with steady growth prospects and expanding margins.

IBM stock jumped in morning trading, adding oomph to a big rally that started with a $1 billion award from the federal government for quantum computing late last month. On Monday, analysts with Barclays initiated coverage of IBM stock with a buy rating. IBM stock climbed more than 8% to 323.74 in morning trades on the stock market today.

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Investing.com -- IBM shares jumped as much as 15% in premarket trading on Monday after a video of President Donald Trump praising the company’s CEO resurfaced on social media over the weekend.

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IBM stock climbed Thursday as the tech giant pledged to invest more than $10 billion over five years in its quantum computing efforts. The news comes a week after a $1 billion award from the federal government for quantum computing gave IBM shares a major jolt. The $10 billion toward includes research and development funds, capital expenditures and mergers and acquisitions, IBM said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Quantum sector ignites on $2B federal backing aimed at beating China in tech race