IBM's Negative Streak Continues

Back in Q1, International Business Machines, better known as IBM, ‘celebrated’ an unpleasant anniversary. As the company reported, the first three months of the year marked the 20th consecutive quarter of declining revenue for one of the oldest tech companies in the world. Unfortunately In Q2, things aren't looking any rosier.

Founded in 1911 and renamed International Business Machines in 1924, the Armonk, New York- based company is currently reinventing itself as it shifts away from its legacy hardware and software businesses towards more promising fields such as cloud computing, security software, data analytics and artificial intelligence. These “Strategic Imperatives” as IBM calls those new businesses accounted for $8.8 billion of IBM’s $19.3 billion in revenue in the second quarter, with the company’s cloud business contributing $3.9 billion. The cloud segment and the strategic imperatives segment (including cloud) have seen significant positive growth for the past few quarters. However, that hasn’t been enough to offset the decline of IBM’s legacy business.