How to Play the Tech Giant's Earnings

Venerable tech giant IBM (NYS: IBM) reported its quarterly earnings after market close today, and the numbers appeared pretty impressive. For an established company, the firm appeared to have a growing presence in key markets and geographies. The envy of more concentrated tech companies such as Oracle (NAS: ORCL) , Dell (NAS: DELL) , and Hewlett-Packard (NYS: HPQ) , IBM saw its powerful business model -- with hardware sales driving software sales, in turn driving consulting contracts -- propelling the business forward yet again. The Motley Fool's two technology analysts, Andrew Tonner and Eric Bleeker, sit down in this video to examine the earnings.

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