該公司創(chuàng)立時的主要業(yè)務為商業(yè)打字機,之后轉(zhuǎn)為文字處理機,然后到計算機和有關服務,2011年IBM在中韓兩國行賄被罰1000萬美元。2013年9月19日,IBM收購了英國商業(yè)軟件廠商Daeja Image Systems,打算將其并入軟件集團和企業(yè)內(nèi)容管理(ECM)業(yè)務。2014年1月9日,IBM宣布斥資10億美元組建新部門,負責公司最新電腦系統(tǒng)Watson。
北京時間2014年12月17日,歐盟委員會表示,已批準了漢莎航空公司將其IT基礎設施部門出售給美國國際商用機器公司(IBM)的交易。
2016年6月8日,《2016年BrandZ全球最具價值品牌百強榜》公布,IBM 排第10名。
International Business Machines (IBM) is a multinational computer and information technology corporation. It’s the fourth largest tech company in the world and has the second most valuable brand. IBM has its origins in the nineteenth century. It was founded in 1896 as the Tabulating Machine Company by Herman Hollerith. It was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1911 as theComputing Tabulating Recording Corporation and became International Business Machines in 1917. Today its business is computer systems, software and hardware, semi-conductors, and IT consulting services. The company employs 400,000 people worldwide. Its staff have won five Nobel Prizes among numerous other international awards. According to its website, these IBMers share the corporate value of “innovation that matters.”