International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM (nicknamed Big Blue), is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. IBM is the largest industrial research organization in the world, with 19 research facilities across a dozen countries; for 29 consecutive years, from 1993 to 2021, it held the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business.
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IBM is an American technology company headquartered in New York that operates in over 175 countries and is one of the largest publicly traded firms in the world. It matters because it is the world's largest industrial research organization and dominated U.S. patent generation for nearly three decades, making it a major driver of technological innovation globally.
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33 sectionsContents
- History
- 1910s–1950s
- World War 2
- 1960s–1980s
- 1990s–2000s
- 2010s–present
- Corporate affairs
- Business trends
- Board and shareholders
- Headquarters and offices
- Products
- Hardware
- Mainframe computers
- Microprocessors
- Quantum computing
- Software
- Cloud services
- Artificial intelligence
- Consulting
- Research
- Patents
- Brand and reputation
- People and culture
- Employees
- Workplace culture
- Leadership
- President
- Chairman of the Board
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International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM (nicknamed Big Blue), is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a publicly traded company and one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. IBM is the largest industrial research organization in the world, with 19 research facilities across a dozen countries; for 29 consecutive years, from 1993 to 2021, it held the record for most annual U.S. patents generated by a business.
IBM was founded in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), a holding company of manufacturers of record-keeping and measuring systems. It was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924 and soon became the leading manufacturer of punch-card tabulating systems. During the 1960s and 1970s, the IBM mainframe, exemplified by the System/360 and its successors, was the world's dominant computing platform, with the company producing 80 percent of computers in the U.S. and 70 percent of computers worldwide. Embracing both business and scientific computing, System/360 was the first family of computers designed to cover a complete range of applications from small to large.
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