IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) or Universal Business Machines Corporation, or IBM (International Business Machines Corporation). The head office is in Armonk, N.Y. Founded in the United States in 1911 by Thomas Watson, it is the world's largest information technology and business solutions company, with more than ?300,000 employees worldwide and operations in more than 160 countries and regions.
International Business Machines Corporation, referred to as IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) NYSE: IBM, headquartered in Armonk, New York. The company was founded primarily as a commercial typewriter, which later evolved into a word processor, and then into computers and related services. IBM is a longtime leader in the computer industry, most notably in mainframe/small form factor computers and laptops (ThinkPad). The personal computer (PC) standard created by IBM is still being used and developed today, and IBM has also made great achievements in the fields of materials, chemistry, physics and other sciences. Hard disk technology that is invented by IBM, scanning tunneling microscope (STM), copper wiring technology, atomic etching technology also invented for the IBM Research Institute.
IBM China, including: IBM China Software Development Center CSDL2004, and Hong Kong Cultural Communications Group to promote the Chinese CPU cash register. On December 8 of the same year, Lenovo Group, which holds nearly one-third of China's personal computer market, announced that it was acquiring IBM's global desktop and laptop production and marketing business for $1.25 billion in cash and stock. 2005, the desktop and laptop business was sold to the Chinese IT company Lenovo Group, which will still be applying the IBM brand within five years. the ThinkPad and ThinkCentre brands were owned by Lenovo Group.
On February 17, 2011, IBM's supercomputer Watson was featured on the popular U.S. quiz show Jeopardy! "(Jeopardy!), a veteran American knowledge quiz TV program, beat two human champions and was hailed as a great breakthrough in computer science and artificial intelligence in the 21st century.
In January 2014, IBM agreed to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo for $2.3 billion.
On August 11, 2014, IBM announced that it had acquired cloud security services provider Lighthouse (Lighthouse Security Group, LLC.) IBM did not release details of the acquisition.
On August 6, 2015, IBM announced that it would acquire Merge Healthcare, a provider of medical imaging and clinical systems, for $1 billion, merging it with its Watson Health division and integrating the data from Merge Healthcare's medical imaging management platform. Merge Healthcare will merge the company with its Watson Health division and integrate the data and images from Merge Healthcare's medical imaging management platform with the image analytics business of its Watson Computing platform.
On October 28, 2015, IBM announced that it had acquired The Weather Company's B2B data business, a deal that will solidify its presence in the Internet of Things.
January 21, 2016, IBM announced that it had acquired Ustream, a provider of live web video streaming services, to form a "cloud video services business." There were reports that the acquisition amounted to $130 million, but this amount was not confirmed by IBM.
On Feb. 19, 2016, IBM acquired health analytics company Truven for $2.6 billion.