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26 April 2019

Is IBM No Longer A Tech Company?

by John Lounsbury

In February we posted an article from Statista which listed the ten largest (by number of employees) tech companies. The list was restricted to companies headquartered in the U.S. which means that some very large companies from the rest of the world did not make the list. For example Foxconn Technology (Taiwan) with 803k, Samsung (S. Korea) with 321k, Huawei Technologies (China) with 188k, and SAP (Germany) with 96k employees are among those not included.

But it was most surprising to me that IBM, an iconic American company with a global reach and the sixth largest enterprise in America (Top 10 Largest Employers in the USA) was not where it seems it should belong, in second place on the Statista list (below).


The IBM website does not identify the company specifically as a technology company, but does "dance" around that definition. Here are some excerpted statements:

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