IBM

Internaitional Business Machines Corporation

Teep	Public
Treddit as	NYSE:IBM Dow Jones Industrial Average Component S&P 500 Component
Industrie	Computer hardware,Computer saftware, IT services,IT consultin
Foondit	Endicott,New York, U.S. (16 Juin 1911(1911-06-16))
Foonder	Charles Ranlett Flint
Heidquarters	Armonk,New York,U.S.
Area served	Warldwide
Key fowk	Ginni Rometty (Chairman, Preses, an CEO)
Products	See IBM products
Revenue	US$ 79.919 billion (2016)
Operatin income	US$ 13.031 billion (2016)
Net income	US$ 11.872 billion (2016)
Tot assets	US$ 117.47 billion (2016)
Tot equity	US$ 18.392 billion (2016)
Nummer o employees	380,000 (2016)
Diveesions	Financin, Hardware, Services, Saftware
Wabsteid	IBM

Internaitional Business Machines Corporation,orIBM,is an Americanmultinaitionaltechnologyanconsultincorporation, wi heidquarters inArmonk,New York,Unitit States.IBM manufactures an mercats computerhardwareansaftware,an offersinfrastructur,hostinanconsultin servicesin auries rangin fraemainframe computerstaenanotechnology.

The company wis foondit in 1911 as theComputin Tabulatin Recordin Company(CTR) throu a merger o three companies: theTabulatin Machine Company,theInternaitional Time Recordin Company,an the Computin Scale Company.CTR adoptit the name Internaitional Business Machines in 1924, uisin a name previously designatiy tae CTR's subsidiar in Canadae an later Sooth Americae. Security analysts nicknamed IBMBig Bluein recognition o IBM's common uise o blue in products, packagin, an logo.

In 2012,Fortuneranked IBM the #2 lairgest U.S. firm in terms o nummer o employees (433,362),the #4 lairgest in terms omercat caipitalization,the #9 maist profitable,an the #19 lairgest firm in terms o revenue.Globally, the company wis ranked the #31 lairgest in terms o revenue biForbesfor 2011.Ether rankins for 2011/2012 include #1 company for leaders (Fortune), #1green companywarldwide (Newsweek), #2 baist global brand (Interbrand), #2 maist respectit company (Barron's), #5 maist admired company (Fortune), an #18 maist innovative company (Fast Company).

IBM haes 12 research laboratories warldwide an, as o 2013, haes held the record for maistpatentsgeneratit bi a company for 20 consecutive years.Its employees hae garnered fiveNobel Prizes,saxTuring Awairds,tenNaitional Medals o Technology,an fiveNaitional Medals o Science.Notable inventions bi IBM include theautomatit teller machine (ATM),thefloppy disk,thehard disk drive,themagnetic stripe card,therelational database,theUniversal Product Code (UPC),thefinancial swap,SABRE airline reservation seestem,DRAM,anWatson artifeecial intelligence.

The company haes unnergone several organizational chynges syne its inception, acquirin companies sic asKenexa(2012) anSPSS(2009) an organisations sic asPwC's consultin business (2002),spinnin affcompanies likLexmark(1991), an sellin aff product lines likThinkPadtaeLenovo(2005).

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