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Also known as: Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, International Business Machines Corporation
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History & Society
- In full:
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Date:
- 1911 - present
- Ticker:
- IBM
- Share price:
- $191.73 (mkt close, Mar. 11, 2024)
- Market cap:
- $179.64 bil.
- Annual revenue:
- $61.86 bil.
- Earnings per share (prev. year):
- $9.61
- Sector:
- Technology
- Industry:
- Computer
- CEO:
- Arvind Krishna
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IBM, leading American computer manufacturer, with a major share of the market both in the United States and abroad. Its headquarters are in Armonk, New York. It was incorporated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in a consolidation of three smaller companies that made punch-card tabulators and other office products. The company assumed its present name in 1924 under the leadership of Thomas Watson, a man of considerable marketing skill who became general manager in 1914 and had gained complete control of the firm by 1924. Watson built the then-floundering company into the leading American manufacturer of punch-card tabulating systems ...(100 of 691 words)