# 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.com |

**Internaitional Business Machines Corporation**, or **IBM**, is an American multinaitional technology an consultin corporation, wi heidquarters in Armonk, New York, Unitit States. IBM manufactures an mercats computer hardware an saftware, an offers infrastructur, hostin an consultin services in auries rangin frae mainframe computers tae nanotechnology.

The company wis foondit in 1911 as the Computin Tabulatin Recordin Company (CTR) throu a merger o three companies: the Tabulatin Machine Company, the Internaitional 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 IBM *Big Blue* in recognition o IBM's common uise o blue in products, packagin, an logo.

In 2012, *Fortune* ranked IBM the #2 lairgest U.S. firm in terms o nummer o employees (433,362), the #4 lairgest in terms o mercat 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 bi *Forbes* for 2011. Ether rankins for 2011/2012 include #1 company for leaders (*Fortune*), #1 green company warldwide (*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 maist patents generatit bi a company for 20 consecutive years. Its employees hae garnered five Nobel Prizes, sax Turing Awairds, ten Naitional Medals o Technology, an five Naitional Medals o Science. Notable inventions bi IBM include the automatit teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the Universal Product Code (UPC), the financial swap, SABRE airline reservation seestem, DRAM, an Watson artifeecial intelligence.

The company haes unnergone several organizational chynges syne its inception, acquirin companies sic as Kenexa (2012) an SPSS (2009) an organisations sic as PwC's consultin business (2002), spinnin aff companies lik Lexmark (1991), an sellin aff product lines lik ThinkPad tae Lenovo (2005).

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Business data
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* IBM Corp. at Hoover's
* IBM Corp. at Reuters
* IBM Corp. SEC filings at SECDatabase.com
* IBM Corp. SEC filings at the Securities an Exchange Commission