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IBM has undergone a large number of mergers and acquisitions during a corporate history lasting over a century; the company has also produced a number of Corporate spin-off, spinoffs during that time. The Takeover, acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between IBM and the subject of the acquisition. The value of each acquisition is listed in USD because IBM is based in the United States. If the value of an acquisition is not listed, then it is undisclosed. Precursors 1889–1910 Herman Hollerith initially did business under his own name, as ''The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System'', specialising in punched card Unit record equipment, data processing equipment. In 1896 he incorporated as the ''Tabulating Machine Company''. *1889 Bundy Manufacturing Company incorporated. *1891 Computing Scale Company incorporated. *1893 Dey Patents Company (soon renamed the Dey Time Register Company) incorporated. *1894 Willard & Frick Manufacturing Company (Rochester, New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, 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 Tabulating machine, punch-card tabulating systems. During the 1960s and 1970s, the IBM mainframe, exemplified by the IBM System/360, System/360 and its successors, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
