IBM
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| Type: | Public |
| Industry: | Information Technology and Services |
| Founded: | 1911 |
| Headquarters: | New Orchard Road Armonk New York, NY 10504 |
| Country: | USA |
| Employees: | 399, 409 worldwide |
| Revenue: | $ 99.870 billion as of 2010 [1] |
| Website: | http://www.ibm.com |
| Key People | |
| Samuel J. Palmisano, Chairman, President and CEO | |
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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) also referred to as the Big Blue is a multinational technology and consulting company offering a wide range of infrastructure, hosting and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, hardware and software development and systems management; and it provides the world's most advanced servers, computers including the nanotechnology.[2] IBM employs hundreds of thousands of employees in more than 170 countries and it operates under the principle of building a smarter planet.
History
Charles Ranlett Flint engineered the merger of his own business, the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation with the International Time Recording Company and the Tabulating Machine Company and on June 16, 1911 C-T-R was incorporated as a holding company which was later named as IBM.[3]
IBM started its business selling punched-card technology, clocks, commercial scales, tabulators and other machineries. [4]