Transcript: Analysis: IBM is selling a majority share of its personal computer division to Chinese company Lenovo

RENEE MONTAGNE
Morning Edition (NPR)
12-08-2004
Analysis: IBM is selling a majority share of its personal computer division to Chinese company Lenovo

Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

RENEE MONTAGNE, host:

IBM, a corporation that's been synonymous with American business computers for a generation, is selling a majority share of its personal computer division to a Chinese company. Lenovo is China's biggest computer maker. It will pay about $1 3/4 billion. IBM helped popularize the PC in the 1980s. In the process, it revolutionized the way computers were used both at home and on the job. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

JIM ZARROLI reporting:

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