#5 IBM

Rank in 2013: 6

Rank in 2012: 4

Rank in 2011: 4

Brand value in 2013: $37.72 Billion

Brand value in 2012: $39.13 Billion

Brand value in 2011: $36.15 Billion

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation. The company is into software services, research and development, and it builds super computers too.

IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide and, as of 2013, has held the record for most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years. Its employees have garnered five Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, ten National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science. Famous inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the Universal Product Code (UPC), the financial swap, SABRE airline reservation system, DRAM, and Watson artificial intelligence.

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