IBM also offers companies a free trial of blockchain in its cloud.
International Business Machines Corp is moving toward settling non-competition claims against its former chief diversity officer and allowing her to take on a temporarily limited role at rival Microsoft Corp.
Lawyers for the company and the former IBM executive, Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, met in a federal court in White Plains, New York, to hash out a possible deal through mediation talks with US Magistrate Judge Paul E. Davison. The lawyers declined to comment on the progress of the talks, which took place over five hours on Thursday in the judge’s chambers.
