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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Research

According to Wikipedia, they are also the world's largest industrial research organization.

IBM spends a lot of money on research and development, as far as I can tell they just usually exit markets that don't have high margins.

Is yahoo really a technology company? IMO it's more of a media company.

Anything that publishes content for public consumption to get advertising revenue is a media company. Google publishes search results to get ads. Facebook published your information for ads. Twitter publishes your tweets for ads.

I heard on the radio that someone proclaimed Facebook is now a media company...no, they've always been a media company.