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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 the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporationand 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.”
國際商業機器公司是一家跨國的信息技術和電腦公司
。它也是全球第四大技術公司,第二大最有價值品牌 。IBM起始于19世紀 。1896年,赫爾曼·霍爾瑞斯創建了制表機器公司 。1911年,該公司在紐約證券交易所上市,1917年更名為國際商業機器公司 。今天,該公司的業務范圍有電腦系統、軟件、硬件、半導體、信息技術咨詢服務 。該公司在全球擁有40萬名員工 。該公司的職員曾經獲得過5項諾貝爾獎,以及眾多其他國際獎項 。該官網稱員工領會了企業的價值核心,即創新的重要性 。譯文屬可可英語原創,未經允許,不得轉載 。