Better Buy After Earnings: Google or IBM?

In the following video, Motley Fool tech and telecom analyst Andrew Tonner takes a look at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG  ) and IBM (NYSE: IBM  ) , now that both have released this quarter's earnings. While Andrew loves the management at IBM and likes its continued execution of its goals to move toward a business model focused more on software and services, which are higher-margin areas for the company, it's hard to argue with the idea that IBM is still positioned in a rapidly maturing industry, whereas Google has tremendous growth prospects ahead of it.

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