IBM Logo — International Business Machines (IBM) is a company multinational U.S. of technology and consultancy based in Armonk, New York. IBM manufactures and markets hardware and software for computers, and offers services in infrastructure, Internet hosting and consulting in a wide range of areas related to computing, from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
The company was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation, the result of the merger of four companies: the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, the Computing Scale Corporation, and the Bundy Manufacturing Company. CTR adopted the name International Business Machines in 1924, using a name previously appointed a subsidiary of CTR in Canada, and later in South America. More