In 2007, IBM Australia grew three times faster than the local market and saw strong double digit revenue growth. Today's announcements indicate that IBM's strategic focus on delivering technology and services to growth markets is gaining momentum.

In October, the BMW Group came a large step closer to its sales target for the whole year – an increase in the higher single-digit range. The number of BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles delivered rose by 13.2% in comparison with the same month last year (108,897) to reach 123,304 cars.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new initiative designed to help Business Partnersincrease their revenues while better serving the needs of their customers. A first-of-its-kind initiative, Grow Your Business with IBM Software, provides specific cross brand sales scenarios across Software Groups' vast product portfolio.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., today announced financial results for the first half of fiscal year 2007, ending March 31, 2008, as well as second-quarter performance.

Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007.

Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, a 27% increase over the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $5.92 billion, $4.29 billion and $0.45, respectively.

The world’s second largest airplane maker Boeing Co. said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit climbed 61 percent due to higher commercial airplane deliveries and growth in its defense business.

Apple Inc has blown analysts' estimates out of the water with a 67 per cent rise in profit as the popularity of its iPhone and iPod boosted Macintosh computer sales, and its shares jumped 7 per cent.

Fujitsu Limited today announced that it has revised upward its earnings projections for the first half of fiscal 2007 ended September 30, 2007 for both consolidated and unconsolidated results. There are no revisions to the full-year earnings projections for fiscal 2007 ending March 31, 2008, on either a consolidated or unconsolidated basis.

Today at Storage Networking World, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that IDC, a leading IT market research and advisory firm, has reported that for Q2'07, IBM was once again the number one tape product vendor in the world, based on branded tape revenue. IBM captured 33.3 percent of the total branded tape revenue global market for Q2'07.

Third-quarter net profit of LG Electronics Inc. surged nearly 15-fold thanks to record handset sales and better performance by its flat panel joint venture LG.Philips LCD Co., the company said Tuesday.

Alcatel-Lucent today revised its full year 2007 revenue outlook and confirmed its previous statements regarding synergy targets for the year.