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I.B.M.

International Business Machines Corporation
Public
Traded as
ISIN US4592001014
Industry
Founded June 16, 1911; 106 years ago (1911-06-16) (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
Endicott, New York, U.S.
Founder Charles Ranlett Flint
Headquarters Armonk, New York, U.S.
Area served
170 countries
Key people
Ginni Rometty
(Chairwoman, President and CEO)
Products See IBM products
Revenue Decrease US$ 79.919 billion (2016)
Decrease US$ 13.031 billion (2016)
Decrease US$ 11.872 billion (2016)
Total assets Increase US$ 117.47 billion (2016)
Total equity Increase US$ 18.392 billion (2016)
Number of employees
380,000 (2016)
Website www.ibm.com

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924.

IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware, middleware and software, and offers hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is also a major research organization, holding the record for most patents generated by a business (as of 2017) for 24 consecutive years. Inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the PC, the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The IBM mainframe, exemplified by the System/360, was the dominant computing platform during the 1960s and 1970s.


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