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IBM


A leader in the technology industry, IBM's businesses include software, storage, servers and services.

Some four years ago, Big Blue sold off its non-profitable PC arm to China's Lenovo, in a bid to move away from commodity products.

Since then, IBM has made moves into new areas to seek revenue: environmental, social networking and "cloud computing" technologies.

The tech stalwart unveiled Big Green Innovations in 2007--a program borne of its companywide online brainstorming sessions Innovation Jam--to help corporations become more eco-friendly.

As part of its cloud computing initiative, the company recently launched "Bluehouse", a Web-based social-networking and collaboration service designed for business.

In October, Big Blue reported a 5 percent rise in annual profit for the third quarter that ended Sep. 30, with earnings of US$2.8 billion on revenue of US$25.3 billion. The company has nearly US$10 billion in cash.

This company is listed in Systems, Data storage management, Software infrastructure, Business applications, Security, Services.



Financials
Fiscal year-end December FY08 FY07 FY06 FY05 FY04
Global revenue (US$millions) — 98,786.0 91,424.0 91,134.0 96,293.0
Global full-year net income (US$millions) — 10,418.0 9,492.0 7,934.0 7,479.0
Average year-on-year revenue growth over 4 years 1.00%
Average year-on-year net income growth over 4 years 11.83%
Percentage of revenue from Asia (including Japan/Korea) 19.74%

Operations
Founded 1924 USA
First Asian office 1937 Phillipines
Global employees 386,558
Global employees in Asia 130,000
Asian economies: Total 10 China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

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