International Business Machines Corporation, better known as IBM, is a company that is and has always been based entirely on information management. From the first scales to today's super computers, nearly all IBM products were designed and developed to record, process, communicate, store, or retrieve information. IBM has been a leading developer and innovator from the late 19th century to the present. IBM was officially incorporated in New York City on June 6, 1911 as CTR, Computing-Tabusing-Recording Company. However, the company's true origins date back to the 19th century, during which several small businesses merged to form one large company. During the 1880s and 1890s several small manufacturing companies were formed and patents were issued, including the patent for the first computing scale, tabulator, dial recorder, and the Willard and Frick Manufacturing company. Each of these patent creators and manufacturers would later be acquired by IBM in some way. In 1911, Charles F. Flint created the merger of Hollerith's Tabifying Machine Company with the Computing Scale Company of America and the International Time Recording Company creating the Computing - Tabifying - Recording Company. With its base in New York City, 1,300 employees, and smaller offices and factories in surrounding states, CTR manufactured and sold machinery including commercial scales, industrial time recorders, tabulators, punch cards, and meat and cheese slicers. Early in CT-R's life, the 3 merged companies did not get along. Because of the difficulties, founder Charles Flick called Thomas J. Watson, former executive of the Nation Cash Register Company. Watson turned the company around by promoting good workers… middle of the paper… in fact, the company recouped about 100 billion in the next year. Works CitedEllis, J. (2014, February 22). Watson of IBM (B. Harris, ed.). Retrieved March 11, 2014, from the Wise Geek website: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-ibms-watson.htmFinancials. (n.d.). Retrieved March 11, 2014, from IBM.Com website: http://www.ibm.com/investor/financials/financial-reporting.wssIBM Archives [Fact Sheet]. (n.d.). Retrieved March 11, 2014, from IBM.com: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/index.htmlIBM Summary. (n.d.). Retrieved March 11, 2014, from the MSN Money website: http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/charts?symbol=US:IBM#{"zRange":"11","startDate":"2006- 3 -31","endDate":"2014-3-10","frequency":"m","chartStyle":"mountain","chartCursor":"1","scaleType":"0"," yaxisAlign ":"right","mode":"pan"}