who is the curent owner of IBM?
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IBM:International Business Machines is a publically held company. So the short answer is the stockholders. You can research their prospectus to find out who the major stockholders are. But no one "owns" the compnay privately.
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I personally prefer IBM for a laptop but if I had to choose between Dell and Compaq it would be Dell hands down!
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International Business Machines
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I would say the guy who owns the Seahawks-Paul Allen. He was the co-founder of Microsoft.
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try IBM\n\ngo here\nhttp://www-1.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/pub_join_allBPs.html
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The current CEO is John B. Holland.\n\nhttp://www.hoovers.com/fruit-of-the-loom/--ID__11960--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
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Bill Gates\n\n#1  William Gates III  United States  50.0 Billions
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William Gates III a.k.a Bill Gates\n$50 billion
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Whoever owns Halliburton.
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Probably the CEO or a member of his family
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the owners of european banks.
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No, it's not just $80.24 - $21.56.  \n\nFirst, we need to find out if there were any stock splits (adjustments in the price of the stock and number of shares outstanding) in IBM's stock during that period and adjust the resulting current price accordingly.\n\nFor instance, suppose a person bought 100 shares of IBM stock at $50 per share.  Then within the first year of ownership, there was a 2 for 1 stock split.  At the moment that the split takes effect, that person who owned 100 shares of stock at $50 apiece would now own 200 shares of the stock at $25 apiece.  If after a few years the price of the stock made it up to $45, it would look like that person had lost $5 per share (-10%) during that period.  In fact, he made 80% taking into account only the price appreciation of the stock, assuming no transaction fees.  His original investment of $5000 (100 shares at $50 apiece) would now be worth $9000 (200 shares at $45 apiece).\n\nFurthermore, assuming IBM pays periodic dividends (profit distributions to shareholders) which is more likely than not, the number and amount of these dividends received would need to be added into the person's ROI equation.
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IBM had this problem.  It became too top heavy.  This happens when the company has too many managers and too few people to carry out the work.  Stress levels increase and you end up with a huge attrition rate of the people that actually do the work.  Yet the managers are "proactive" and keep hiring people to do the work.  Projects run over budget and the managers blame the work-force.  They never see that they are top heavy till it is too late.  Think how much bigger IBM would have been!
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Lenovo. IBM's quality is far better.
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Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Traditional Chinese: 楊致遠; Pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born November 6, 1968) is the Taiwanese American co-founder of Yahoo! Inc. He is one of two Chief Yahoo!s, board director and a former executive of the company. His net worth in 2005 was US$2.6 billion.\n\nBorn in Taipei, Taiwan, Yang moved to San Jose, California when aged ten, with his single mother (Lily) and younger brother (Ken). His father had died when Yang was two. He claimed that despite his mother being an English teacher, he only knew one English word (shoe) on his arrival. Mastering the English language in only three years, he was soon placed into an AP English class.\n\nYang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Yang was recently named to the Stanford Board of Trustees. He co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. Yang married Akiko Yamazaki, a Japanese American raised in Costa Rica. She is an anthropologist.\n\nIn 2005, Yahoo! was criticized for identifying Chinese dissident journalist Shi Tao to Chinese authorities, resulting in his receiving a ten year jail sentence. Yang commented that "To be doing business in China, or anywhere else in the world, we have to comply with local law." Whether Yahoo! was legally obliged to reveal the information is a matter of dispute.
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Go to this website about Yahoo: http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/bios.cfm
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ok you want to buy a computer from the same guys that sell bags of dirt? There is a reason they carry eMachines and not IBM's.