IBM Corporation
US stocks drop on Cyprus, weak earnings
Mar 21, 2013 16:54 EDT
US stocks fell Thursday, hit by uncertainty over the Cyprus banking crisis and some surprisingly weak corporate earnings.
Dow extends record-setting streak to seven days
Mar 13, 2013 16:54 EDT
The Dow Jones Industrial Average set a new record closing for the seventh straight day Wednesday as US stocks registered small gains.
Authors oppose Amazon control of .book websites
Mar 11, 2013 20:25 EDT
Groups representing US authors and publishers have called on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to deny online retailer Amazon exclusive rights to websites ending with .book, .author, or .read.
At world's top IT fair, firms mull death of email
Mar 06, 2013 22:34 EST
At the CeBIT in Germany, the world's biggest high-tech fair, some firms say they are looking at doing away with email to increase productivity.
Merkel pins hopes on IT as world's top tech fair opens
Mar 04, 2013 18:17 EST
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said the IT industry was one of the key potential sources for growth in the crisis-hit eurozone, as she opened the world's biggest high-tech fair.
Tablets, smartphones drive German IT market higher
Mar 04, 2013 07:18 EST
A booming market for smartphones and tablet computers was expected to drive the German IT sector higher in 2013, although growth was slowing slightly, said industry lobby BITKOM on the eve of the world's top high-tech fair.
Yahoo! fuels fresh debate on telecommuting
Feb 27, 2013 05:37 EST
Telecommuting, a growing trend in the US workplace, is coming under fresh scrutiny following news that Yahoo! is curbing the practice.
Yahoo! fuels fresh debate on telecommuting
Feb 26, 2013 22:08 EST
Telecommuting, a growing trend in the US workplace, is coming under fresh scrutiny following news that Yahoo! is curbing the practice.
IBM puts supercomputer to work on cancer
Feb 11, 2013 15:31 EST
IBM is putting its Watson supercomputer to work fighting cancer, in what is described as the first commercial program of its kind to use "big data" to help patients with the disease.
Stocks go higher on earnings, House debt vote
Jan 23, 2013 17:29 EST
Buoyed by strong earnings results in the technology sector and progress in the Washington fiscal budget debate, US stocks closed higher Wednesday.
Oil prices diverge amid light profit-taking
Jan 23, 2013 14:09 EST
Global oil prices traded mixed on Wednesday, as some dealers cashed in recent gains, on the eve of the weekly snapshot of crude inventories in top global crude consumer the United States.
European stocks mixed after Cameron EU speech
Jan 23, 2013 13:38 EST
European stock markets closed with mixed results on Wednesday after British Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans for a referendum on his country's future within the European Union (EU), and official data revealed a deepening of Spain's recession.
European stocks mixed amid Cameron EU speech
Jan 23, 2013 10:03 EST
European stock markets were mixed on Wednesday as Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans for a referendum on Britain's EU future, and official data revealed a deepening of Spain's recession.
Microsoft in talks on Dell buyout: reports
Jan 22, 2013 13:26 EST
Microsoft is in talks with private equity investors on a possible buyout of US computer giant Dell, the Wall Street Journal and cable news channel CNBC reported Tuesday.
S&P hits 5-year high as markets score weekly gain
Jan 18, 2013 19:34 EST
US markets turned in their third straight week of gains Friday with the S&P 500 and the Dow clawing up to their best closing levels in five years.
IBM tops as tech titans scramble for US patents
Jan 10, 2013 14:03 EST
The number of US patents issued last year hit a record high, with IBM leading ranks of technology titans scrambling for ownership of intellectual property, says a report released Thursday.
China's Chengdu aiming to be world's next Silicon Valley
Dec 30, 2012 02:58 EST
Entrepreneurs in China's southwest are dreaming of turning the city of Chengdu into the world's next Silicon Valley as the government encourages more investment outside the booming coastal regions.
New computing devices will allow touch, smell: IBM
Dec 17, 2012 16:31 EST
Future computing devices will push further into the senses by developing capacities to mimic the ability to see, smell, touch, taste and hear, IBM says in an annual forecast Monday.
US inventor of bar code dies at 91
Dec 14, 2012 07:08 EST
N. Joseph Woodland, inventor of the now ubiquitous bar code that revolutionized retail, has died at the age of 91, US media reported Friday.
'Cyber Monday' shoppers spent record $1.46 bn
Nov 28, 2012 15:45 EST
Online sales for "Cyber Monday," the traditional debut for US holiday Web shopping, jumped to $1.465 billion this year, a research firm said Wednesday.
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| Type | Public (NYSE: IBM) |
|---|---|
| Founded | Endicott, New York (1896, incorporated 1911) |
| Founder(s) | Herman Hollerith |
| Headquarters | Armonk, New York, U.S. |
| Area served |  Worldwide |
| Key people | Samuel J. Palmisano (Chairman, President and CEO) Mark Loughridge (SVP and CFO) Dan Fortin (President – Canada) David Anderson (Junior Vice President, IBM Global Business Services) Nick Donofrio (Executive Vice President – Innovation & Technology) Mike Rhodin (President IOT Northeast Europe) Dominique Cerutti (President IOT Southwest Europe)[1] |
| Industry | Computer hardware Computer software Consultant IT service management |
| Products | See products listing |
| Revenue | ▲ US$ 103.63 billion (2008) |
| Operating income | ▲ US$ 15.938 billion (2008) |
| Net income | ▲ US$ 12.334 billion (2008) |
| Total assets | ▼ US$ 109.524 billion (2008) |
| Total equity | ▼ $ 13.446 billion (2008) |
| Employees | 398,455 (2009) |
| Subsidiaries | ADSTAR FileNet ILOG Informix Iris Associates Lotus Software Rational Software Sequent Computer Systems Telelogic Tivoli Software List of mergers and acquisitions by IBM |
| Website | IBM.com |
