IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a multinational technology company from the United States that makes and sells software, computer hardware, infrastructure services, and consulting services. IBM is one of the biggest Information Technology companies in the world. IBM has had the most patents of any technology company for many years, and has made many important inventions and discoveries that have improved computers.
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| ISIN | US4592001014 |
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| Founded | June 16, 1911 (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company) Endicott, New York, U.S.[1] |
| Founder | Charles Ranlett Flint |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | 177 countries[2] |
Key people | Ginni Rometty (Chairwoman, President and CEO) |
| Revenue |  US$62.73 billion (2024) |
| 11px US$9.380 billion (2024) | |
| 11px US$6.023 billion (2024) | |
| Total assets | US$137.2 billion (2024) |
| Total equity | US$27.39 billion (2024) |
Number of employees | 270,300 (2024) |
| Website | www.ibm.com |
IBM began in 1911, it was called the "Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company". It was set up by a man named Charles Flint. There were no computers at that time, so IBM made other machines, such as typewriters. In 1924, the company changed its name to International Business Machines (IBM). In 1937, the company's Tabulating Machines were used by the United States government to record information about Americans, so they could make a new law called the Social Security Act.
During World War II, IBM made guns for the American army. During the 1960s and 1970s IBM dominated the mainframe computer market. IBM computers were used for American space exploration. From the 1980s starting in 1981 until 2005, IBM made personal computers. In 2005, IBM sold their personal computer manufacturing to a Chinese company called Lenovo. Today, IBM mostly makes software, and some powerful supercomputers.
IBM Media
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NACA researchers using an IBM type 704 electronic data processing machine in 1957
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An IBM System/360 in use at the University of Michigan c. 1969
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IBM guidance computer hardware for the Saturn V Instrument Unit
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The IBM Personal Computer (pictured) became one of IBM's best selling products and has had a wide influence on personal computing since its release in 1981.
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IBM inventions (clockwise from top-left): the hard-disk drive, DRAM, the UPC bar code, and the magnetic stripe card
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Pangu Plaza, one of IBM's offices in Beijing, China
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Blue Gene was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2009.
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IBM Q System One (2019), the first circuit-based commercial quantum computer
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The Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, is one of 12 IBM research labs worldwide.
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IBM Fellow Benoit Mandelbrot discusses fractal geometry, 2010.
References
- ↑ Certificate of Incorporation of Computing-Tabulating-Recording-Co, 14th day of June 1911
- ↑ "IBM Is Blowing Up Its Annual Performance Review". fortune.com. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
Other websites
- Official website
- IBM website at the Wayback Machine (archived October 22, 1996)
- Business data for IBM Corp.: Google Finance
- Yahoo! Finance
- Reuters
- SEC filings
- Samme Chittum (March 15, 2004). "In an I.B.M. Village, Pollution Fears Taint Relations With Neighbors". New York Times. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E4DF1631F936A25750C0A9629C8B63&fta=y.
- IBM companies grouped at OpenCorporates
- Business data for IBM: Google Finance
- Yahoo! Finance
- Reuters
- SEC filings
