The company was started in 1911 in a small village in Endicott, US. Initially it was known as CTR - Computing Tabulating Recording - In the year 1924, CTR changed its name to what is popularly known as IBM.
IBM - International Business Machines Corporation is a multinational technology and consulting organization. IBM is now one of the leading technology organizations all over the globe. IBM is headquartered in Armonk, New York, US.With over 435,000 employees all over the globe,It has over 12 research labs spread worldwide that set the record of most numbers of patents, 20 years in a row.
Some of the many astonishing and globally admired inventions of IBM include automated teller machine (ATM), floppy disk, hard disk drive (HDD), Universal Product Code (UPC), magnetic stripe card, In the year 2005, ThinkPad was acquired by Lenovo which is now sold under its own franchise.gaming consoles and many more. Current consoles like Xbox 360, Sony PS3, Wii and Nintendo all use IBM manufactured microprocessors. Majority of the electronically operating devices, hitherto, uses IBM powered microchips and processors.
