IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) or International Business Machines Corporation, referred to as IBM (International Business Machines Corporation). The headquarters is in Armonk, New York. Founded in the United States by Thomas Watson in 1911, 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.
When the company was founded, its main business was commercial typewriters, and later switched to word processors, and then to computers and related services. In 2011, IBM was fined US$10 million for bribery in China and South Korea. On September 19, 2013, IBM acquired British business software vendor Daeja Image Systems, intending to merge it into the software group and enterprise content management (ECM) business.
On January 9, 2014, IBM announced that it would spend US$1 billion to form a new department responsible for the company's latest computer system, Watson. On December 17, 2014, Beijing time, the European Commission stated that it had approved the sale of Lufthansa's IT infrastructure unit to the US-based International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
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Norimoto Norishige, IBM Global Vice President and Director of IBM Tokyo Research Institute, opened the IBM Think Summit held in Taipei, China Shanghai said the company is preparing to commercialize quantum computers within the next three to five years.
In 2008, IBM established the Corporate Global Volunteer Service Corps (CSC) to select outstanding employees from around the world to provide urgently needed services free of charge in the form of volunteer services regardless of national boundaries or regions. Professional skills and services.
Since 2018, IBM has sounded the "Call for Code" around the world, investing US$30 million. Together with the United Nations, the Red Cross and other NGOs, We call on all developers around the world to participate in "technology for good" and let programmers use their programming skills to respond to natural disasters and save lives.
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