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Contents 1 History 1.1 Past 1.2 Present 1.3 Future 1.3.1 Internet 1.3.2 Intranet 1.3.3 Extranet 2 Notes 2.1 Sources 2.2 See also

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International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or, colloquially, Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century; it was founded in 1888 and incorporated as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R) on June 15, 1911, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1916. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

IBM is the largest information technology company in the world and holds more patents than any other technology company.

Since 2001, services and consulting (Global Service) revenues have been larger than those from manufacturing (Hardware). Significantly, IBM has also been steadily increasing its workforce in developing countries and retrenching in the US and Europe. Samuel J. Palmisano was elected CEO on January 29, 2002 after having led IBM's Global Services, and helping it to become a business with $100 billion in backlog in 2004.

IBM has engineers and consultants in over 170 countries and IBM Research has eight laboratories, all located in the Northern Hemisphere, with five of those locations outside of the United States. IBM employees have earned five Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, five National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science.

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Revenue: $98.8 billion USD (2007)

Stock Symbol: NYSE:IBM

Net income: $10.8 billion USD (2007)

Total assets: $103.2 billion (2006)

Number of employees (worldwide): 386,558 (2007)

Stockholders of record: 613,993 (2006)

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IBM Passport Advantage

IBM PartnerWorld

IBM Innovation Centers

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IBM Blue Pages

IBM Campaign Designer

IBM InnovationJam

IBM Certifications (prometric)

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IBM Lotus Greenhouse

IBM resource for developers

IBM Bluehouse

IBM Lotus Foundations

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM

http://computing.wikia.com/wiki/IBM

http://domino.wikia.com/wiki/IBM

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http://business.wikia.com/wiki/IBM

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