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What is the full form of IBM, the technology company?

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Answer: Option D — International Business Machines

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IBM stands for "International Business Machines Corporation", an American multinational technology company.

About IBM:

It was founded in 1911 as the "Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company" (CTR), by merging four companies, under the financier Charles Flint.

It was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924 by Thomas J. Watson Sr., who led it for decades.

Its headquarters is in Armonk, New York, USA.

It is nicknamed "Big Blue".

Its motto has been "THINK".

Contributions to computing:

  • It made tabulating machines with punched cards, used in the US Census.
  • It introduced the IBM System/360 (1964), a family of mainframe computers.
  • It launched the "IBM Personal Computer" (IBM PC) in 1981, which set the standard for personal computers.
  • Its researchers invented the hard disk drive (1956), the floppy disk (1971), DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) and the programming language FORTRAN (1957).
  • Its computer "Deep Blue" defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
  • Its artificial intelligence system "Watson" won the quiz show "Jeopardy!" in 2011.
  • It is a leader in quantum computing and cloud computing, and acquired Red Hat in 2019.
  • Its researchers have won several Nobel Prizes and Turing Awards.

IBM in India:

  • IBM first came to India in the 1950s.
  • It left India in 1978, when the government required foreign companies to reduce their stake (under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, FERA).
  • It returned in 1992, after the economic reforms.
  • India is now home to one of IBM's largest workforces outside the USA.
  • Arvind Krishna, an Indian-origin engineer (IIT Kanpur alumnus), has been IBM's CEO since April 2020.

Why not the other options?

  • ✗"Indian Business Management" is not the correct expansion.
  • ✗"International Banking Machines" is not the correct expansion.
  • ✗"Integrated Business Microsystems" is not the correct expansion.

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Remember: IBM = International Business Machines (founded 1911 as CTR; renamed 1924; HQ Armonk, New York; "Big Blue"; IBM PC 1981; Deep Blue beat Kasparov 1997); CEO Arvind Krishna (2020).

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