IBM - International Business Machines    

 International Business Machines (IBM) is the largest multinational technology computer company in the world. IBM is by far the world's largest information technology company in terms of income and by most other procedures, a position it has held for about the past 50 years IBM started on 16th June 1911 founded by Thomas J. Watson. Employees of IBM are approximately 4,31,212 as of 2013.  The company was founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) through a merger of three companies: the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company.  IBM is also known as "Big Blue" after the color of its logo. The company has made everything from mainframes to personal computers and has been immensely successful selling business computers. In 1924, Watson changed the company’s name to International Business Machines Corporation or IBM. From the beginning, IBM defined itself not by selling products, which ranged from commercial scales to punch card tabulators, but by its research and development    

The company has twelve research labs worldwide Almaden, Austin, Australia, Brazil, China, Dublin, Israel, India, Tokyo, Watson (New York), Zurich and Nairobi with Watson serving as headquarters for the research division and the site of its annual meeting. IBM began designing and manufacturing calculators in the 1930s, using the technology of their own punch card processing paraphernalia. In 1944, IBM together with Harvard University financed the creation of the Mark 1 computer, the first machine to compute long calculations automatically. In 1953 IBM was ready to completely produce their own computers, which began with the IBM 701 EDPM, their first commercially successful general-purpose computer. And the 701 was just the beginning. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognised IBM as one of the “Top 20 Best Workplaces for Commuters” in 2005. The award was to recognise Fortune companies, which provided employees with excellent commuter benefits to help reduce traffic and air pollution. For More

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