6 Fascinating Things You Didn't Know About IBM -- The Motley Fool

Many people are familiar with International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) and its wide variety of mainframe computers, business servers, and consulting services. Investors are probably also familiar with its more recent forays into data analytics, cloud computing, and cognitive computing solutions, represented by its AI-based Watson supercomputer. There are, however, a number of innovations that forever changed the technological landscape and paved the way for the larger societal and demographic shifts that followed. IBM has a long and fascinating history of innovation. Charles Flint, a financier in New York, arranged for the merger of several companies that developed time clocks, computing scales, and tabulating machines.