IBM Focuses on Big Data & 3 Dow Movers on Friday

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IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty views “big data” services, which permit customers to examine huge amounts of information to make better decisions, as the firm’s biggest focus in 2013. Commenting after a speech in front of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, she said that “it’s certainly everything around big data and analytics,” pointing out that data will give firms and governments a competitive advantage, adding, “I want you to think about data as the next natural resource.”